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mtools: fix race issue while mtools invoked frequently
authorHongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2018 09:16:42 +0000 (17:16 +0800)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:45:32 +0000 (07:45 +0100)
commit927fad7881841a58e1d88f3a6ce070eaa66ba1a5
tree4d80426cba1479ead2fba5cd31bf7f938d69f6dc
parent7f9d2d16b8cdff9cbba2b3965c74d1c5b8ab1106
mtools: fix race issue while mtools invoked frequently

While invoking mtools frequently, the unblocking request
caused race issue. Here is an example of syslinux
[snip]
dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=144
losetup /dev/loop1 floppy.img
mkdosfs /dev/loop1
syslinux -i /dev/loop1
|plain floppy: device "/proc/6351/fd/3" busy (Resource temporarily unavailable):
|Cannot initialize 'S:'
|Bad target s:/ldlinux.sys
[snip]

The idea is from:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235016
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-dev/bRPUCFHoBTQ/ZjB8kjjx1vUJ

Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools/0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch [new file with mode: 0644]
meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb