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From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkid: open device in nonblock mode.
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 17:19:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200107161918.GX4113@kitsune.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200107160443.y72na25i5fk72zqt@10.255.255.10>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 05:04:43PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:23:15PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > When autoclose is set (kernel default but many distributions reverse the
> > setting) opening a CD-rom device causes the tray to close.
> 
> I found unwanted side effect, open() with O_NONBLOCK also successes
> when there is no medium. Unfortunately, we ignore I/O errors for
> CDROMs to support some crazy hybrid media -- so overall result is many
> I/O warnings in system logs.
> 
> I have added CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS to the logic to stop probing when
> there is no medium. Let's hope it will be enough:
> 
> https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/dc30fd4383e57a0440cdb0e16ba5c4336a43b290

It it probably safer to do
switch (ioctl(fd, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS, CDSL_CURRENT)) {
to support some crazy CD changers.

Thanks

Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-07 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-04 20:23 [PATCH] blkid: open device in nonblock mode Michal Suchanek
2019-11-05 11:41 ` Karel Zak
2019-11-05 17:13   ` Michal Suchánek
2019-11-06  8:02     ` Michal Suchánek
2019-11-06  8:48       ` Karel Zak
2019-11-06  9:45         ` Michal Suchánek
2019-11-12  8:27         ` Anatoly Pugachev
2019-11-12  8:58           ` Karel Zak
2019-11-06  9:00 ` Karel Zak
2020-01-07 16:04 ` Karel Zak
2020-01-07 16:19   ` Michal Suchánek [this message]
2020-01-08  8:25     ` Karel Zak

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