mdev -d can (silently) die with "read: no buffer space available"

[Alexander Zangerl]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:44:14 +1000, Alexander Zangerl writes:
>i meant 'guarded by a stat() and inode comparison'.
>that shouldn't be too expensive i think. how about this? the patch works
>for any number of instances of mdev.log being created and removed later on,
>and costs one stat().

...but each new mdev.log creation causes another "[pid]" marker to be added
to applet_name. here's an amended patch without that wrinkle.

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regards
az


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