linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs directories.

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 11:00:17 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 25/20] sysfs: Only support removing emtpy sysfs  directories.

Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> writes:

> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:49, James Bottomley
>> <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > OK ... perhaps we have to wait a little harder: try this; it waits until
>> > all the targets have disappeared from visibility via an event.
>> 
>> That seems to work fine here.
>
> It's good for a short-term fix.  For the longer term, I still think 
> it's a mistake to wait for the sdevs to be released before deleting the 
> target.  It gives user programs the ability to block the host-removal 
> thread indefinitely.

How can user programs block removal indefinitely today?

Eric
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