Re: block till hotplug is done?

[Jon Masters]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:38:08 -0400, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx
<valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:13:15 +0200, Harald Dunkel said:
> > Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there any way to block till all hotplug events are handled/
> > > the hotplug processes terminated?
> > >
> >
> > while [ "`ps | grep /sbin/hotplug | grep -v grep`" ]; do sleep 1; done
> 
> Save a process:
> 
> while [ "`ps | grep '/sbin/[h]otplug'`" ]; do sleep 1; done

Why not sit a script in /etc/dev.d and have that wake up your fsck
script by signalling a flag file somewhere or somesuch - I think this
is the preferable to do stuff with udev, Greg?

Jon.
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