Re: [E-devel] eet keeping file locks on closed files?

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:18:51 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
<ra...@ra...> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:38:34 +1000 David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> said:
> 
> > In my embedded project, I have a flash disk partition just for some
> > eet files.  I mount it at the beginning of execution, read and
> > write to them, then unmount it when the program finishes.  Or try
> > to, the unmount fails.
> > 
> > From what I can tell, eet is keeping locks on those files and I
> > can't unmount the partition until after the program goes away.
> > 
> > # lsof /mnt
> > COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> > ggg     32720 root  mem    REG   8,34     1207   13 /mnt/gggData.eet
> > ggg     32720 root   14r   REG   8,34     1207   13 /mnt/gggData.eet
> > 
> > This is AFTER that file had been opened once then closed once by
> > eet, but before trying to unmount /mnt.
> > 
> > Is this what eet is actually doing, keeping those locks around?
> 
> not locks at all. cache. eet_clearcache(); it'll flush pending/held
> open eet files and close them up.
> 

That seems to be working now.  Thanks.

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