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

[Jonas Meurer]

On 17/10/2007 David Härdeman wrote:
> On Tue, October 16, 2007 20:16, Dick Middleton wrote:
> > Jonas Meurer wrote:
> >> I prepared cryptsetup packages with the proposed patch applied. could
> >> you give them a try?
> >
> > I'll try it a bit more determinedly later but the initial signs are good.
> 
> That's good to hear.
> 
> Jonas, the race condition still remains in libdevmapper, this fix works
> around it for cryptsetup so it still needs to be fixed in libdevmapper. I
> say we reassign this bug, keep an eye on it and remove the Novell patch
> once libdevmapper is fixed. Do you agree?

Hey David,

indeed your proposed solution sounds very sensible. except that we maybe
should clone the bugreport first, reassign the original to devmapper and
close the cloned one within the changelog.
This way we document somewhere what the purpose of the udevsettle
workaround/patch was.

greetings,
 jonas