Re: Race between "mount" uevent and /proc/mounts?

[Xavier Bestel]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 16:34, Kay Sievers wrote:

> They are actually events for claim/release of a block device. As uevents
> are bound to kobjects we needed to send these events from an existing device
> which is the blockdev itself.
> 
> Sure, the event itself, has nothing to do with a filesystem. The names are
> like this for historical reasons and "CLAIM/RELEASE" may be less confusing.
> The events are used as a trigger to rescan /proc/mounts instead of polling
> it constantly.
> 
> If you have a better idea where to plug it, or if we better rename it, we
> should do that...

Make /proc/mount send an inotify event ?


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