Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:14:16 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Szalai Andras <andrew@djw.hu> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom orphan question Message-ID: <5755.1129745656@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:12:31 %2B0200." <20051019181231.GD76081@web.djw.hu>
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In message <20051019181231.GD76081@web.djw.hu>, Szalai Andras writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:03:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20051019175310.GC76081@web.djw.hu>, Szalai Andras writes:
>[...]
>
>> There are counters in consumers and providers which can tell
>> you that.
>>
>> The above code seems to play fast and loose with that aspect.
>
>But it means that I have to do something similar to this?
>
>while (nstart != end) { wait... }
>g_detach(...)
That would require a thread you can sleep in.
A better way is to catch it in your bio_done, and fire off an
event to do the cleanup.
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