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-rw-r--r--perl-install/NEWS1
-rw-r--r--perl-install/devices.pm4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/NEWS b/perl-install/NEWS
index 97b8e85f4..c10bc1503 100644
--- a/perl-install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
- diskdrake:
o fix crashing on writing fstab when using SMB (#46084)
+ o fix racing with udev (#41832)
o --nfs: handle "host:/" (#44320)
Version 11.71.2 - 5 December 2008
diff --git a/perl-install/devices.pm b/perl-install/devices.pm
index 4d1d9745e..6b091be27 100644
--- a/perl-install/devices.pm
+++ b/perl-install/devices.pm
@@ -185,7 +185,9 @@ sub make($) {
#- make a directory for this inode if needed.
mkdir_p(dirname($file));
- syscall_('mknod', $file, $type | 0600, makedev($major, $minor)) or die "mknod failed (dev $_): $!";
+ syscall_('mknod', $file, $type | 0600, makedev($major, $minor)) or do {
+ die "mknod failed (dev $_): $!" if ! -e $file; # we may have raced with udev
+ };
$file;
}