Re: partition table rereading

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sat, 3 Apr 1999 22:58:42 +0200 (MET DST)


jj:

> I completely agree with this. Probably some ioctl (e.g. BLKRR1PART) with
> some structure describing what to do.

Yes. Possibly

ioctl(fd, DO_PARTITION_STUFF, p);

with

struct ioctl_arg {
int op;
int flags;
int datalen;
void *data;
} *p;

or so. I already have a few other uses for this ioctl as well.

> If I find some time for it, I'll try to code something and come with it back

Good!

Andries

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