@Scott, >> int k = open("/dev/sda", O_WRONLY); >> close(k); >That actually has quite a few side-effects that you might not >realise ;-)
It might be good then to warn people not to run "parted --list" to view partition tables. That seems to open all your devices with O_WRONLY. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs