O_NONBLOCK for devices with removable media

Marc Olzheim marcolz at stack.nl
Mon Aug 1 13:35:48 GMT 2005


On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 04:33:23PM +0300, victor cruceru wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> Thanks for the info. Here it is one my situation. I have a CF reader (fully 
> detected by the USB subsystem) with two slots
> (one with a media and one without any media). An open with O_NONBLOCK on the 
> empty slot (/dev/da1) is blocking me.
> Is this OK? 

Hmm, it seems not. Perhaps is trying to do its magic first. What's the
wchan of the process doing the open() ?

Marc
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