Q: force/trigger a retaste

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <500B8D5E-A46F-48AF-A835-97C46ED36F91 at mac.com>, Marcel Moolenaar wri
tes:

>What needs to
>happen is that an existing class (i.e. the GPART class) gets to taste
>all existing providers again, so that it can attach to providers it
>previously did not attach to (due to a change in the supported schemes).

>Is this correct?

Broadly speaking yes, but you must fire it off as an event so it
gets run in the event thread, otherwise the locking falls apart.

>Shall I make this a generic GEOM function or keep it private to
>GPART?

Make it generic, I can imagine other uses.

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