[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#444914: temporary-cryptsetup-$$ files appear in /dev/mapper

[Jonas Meurer]

On 21/11/2007 Dick Middleton wrote:
>>  This leads to problems if you invoke cryptsetup as part of a udev role.
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> rule (not role).
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>> udevsettle waits until queued kernel/udev events are processed and the
>> 'run programs' have finished. Due to cryptsetup itself being a 'run
>> programm' in this case, this ends in a deadlock.
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> program not programm.
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>>  Therefore cryptsetup should be detached directly after invokation, so
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> invocation rather than invokation.

That's interesting. Why is it 'to invoke' but 'invocation' in english?
is that simply a irregular case?

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>> that it runs asynchronously.
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> Yup,  that's good - it's enough.

Thanks, will be included within the next cryptsetup upload.

greetings, 
 jonas