Package: parted Version: 3.5-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Currently with debian/patches/udevadm-settle.patch, `udevadm settle` is called around the opening/closing of the block device. This is supposed to wait for udev to process device creation events and ensuring that the device nodes have been created. I don't think this call is needed, instead we should lock the device using flock(LOCK_EX) and hold the lock until we are done with the device. According to systemd documentation, https://systemd.io/BLOCK_DEVICE_LOCKING/ this is the correct way to stop udev from processing events on the block device while it is being modified. This method could also be pushed upstream to parted, there is an outstanding patch (long before systemd!) which could be used for inspiration: https://www.mail-archive.com/parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg04119.html -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.35-1 ii libparted2 3.5-2 ii libreadline8 8.2~rc2-2 ii libtinfo6 6.3+20220423-2 parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: pn parted-doc <none> -- no debconf information
