Package: usbmount
Followup-For: Bug #377548
Hi!
Frédéric's reply to this bugreport warmed my heart and I was inspired to
do what I promised Rogério a couple of years ago: solve all of
usbmount's problems. ;)
While Frédéric's approach is outstandingly creative, I think we can
address #377548 and #403209 simply by switching to another locking
approach. I replaced all calls to utilities from 'lockfile-progs' by
one to flock(1), thereby gaining:
1) Even less dependencies (and LOC);
flock comes from the essential package 'util-linux'.
2) A snappy locking implementation that doesn't wait in increments of
5, 10, 15, ... seconds like lockfile-* does. (WTF!)
I tested with a pen drive that has 20 partitions, different file systems
and I consistently mount all of 'em under 4 seconds.
I have a bugfix-branch of upstream,
https://github.com/hfuchs/usbmount/tree/hfuchs.377548
which contains only the necessary changes (almost: I also handle the
/var/run -> /run transition because it's the same code region).
(Don't forget: There's another one for #658028!)
-Hagen
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