geom orphan question

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20051019181231.GD76081 at web.djw.hu>, Szalai Andras writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:03:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20051019175310.GC76081 at web.djw.hu>, Szalai Andras writes:
>[...]
>
>> There are counters in consumers and providers which can tell
>> you that.
>> 
>> The above code seems to play fast and loose with that aspect.
>
>But it means that I have to do something similar to this?
>
>while (nstart != end) { wait... }
>g_detach(...)

That would require a thread you can sleep in.

A better way is to catch it in your bio_done, and fire off an
event to do the cleanup.

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