Timeout problems with "blkid" applet

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 09:00, Alexander Griesser wrote:
> Another thing I found out while walking through the CMOS options of
> these thinclients: They had a floppy drive configured although none
> was there, so I tried to disable it in the CMOS et voila: The timeout
> is gone.
> 
> So the CMOS definetly was configured wrong, but the question about
> why busybox' blkid behaves differently is still unanswered.

Because busybox's blkid is very differently implemented.

I am much interested in results from the test program.
You are saying all opens failed. Do they succeed if you remove O_NONBLOCK?
What does it print in that case?
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