Hi all,

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 05:06:07PM +0200, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> In the YaST storage area, we have a problem that manifests itself in
> very subtle bugs:

Stefan: Thank you for starting this thread.

[...]
> After investigating this quite some bit, it turned out that even
> though it should be purely read-only, "parted -l" opens the disk
> device first read-only, 

This is the probing done by parted itself,

> then closes it, then reopens it read-write
> (for reasons we don't understand yet) 

This second RW open is done by libparted - it simply does not
care if the operation to be performed needs RW access or not.


BTW, as I have less and less time for parted, I would like to
offer it to anybody who would like to become a (co?)maintainer.


Best,


        Petr

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Petr Uzel
TL SUSE L3 Team 2

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