Hello,
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:47:56PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> My current goal is to make unionmount go away when the mountee (the
> union-mounted translator) goes away. From antrik's words (and from
> personal remembering) I know that this could be achieved by listening
> to the MACH_NOTIFY_NO_SENDERS notification on translator's control
> port. However, I could not find sufficient (for me) information how
> to properly request such a notification.
>
> I looked into hurd/boot/boot.c and libfshelp/start-translator-long.c
> but, unfourtunately, both are handling rather specific cases,
> considerably different from my situation. By analogy with boot.c, I
> built up the following series of steps:
>
> mach_port_allocate (mach_task_self (), MACH_PORT_RIGHT_RECEIVE,
> &nosenders_listen_port);
> mach_port_insert_right (mach_task_self (), nosenders_listen_port,
> nosenders_listen_port,
> MACH_MSG_TYPE_MAKE_SEND);
> mach_port_request_notification (mach_task_self (), nosenders_listen_port,
> MACH_NOTIFY_NO_SENDERS, 1,
> nosenders_listen_port,
> MACH_MSG_TYPE_MAKE_SEND_ONCE, &prev);
>
> However, this series of steps is pretty meaningless, since I never
> specify the port to the mountee, to which I would like to listen for
> notifications. I tried putting mountee_port and mountee_control (I
> hope the names of the variables make their destination clear) instead
> of nosenders_listen_port in different places, but I am constantly
> receiving and ``invalid port right'' error.
>
> Could somebody point out an idea of a solution to this problem,
> please?
The solution to this problem was kindly pointed out on the IRC by
antrik and Fredrik. I was receiving ``invalid port right'' because I
was listening to the wrong notification. The right notification is
MACH_NOTIFY_DEAD_NAME. The first two function calls
(mach_port_allocate and mach_port_insert_right) are okay. The third
call, however, should be like as follows:
mach_port_request_notification (mach_task_self (), mountee_control,
MACH_NOTIFY_DEAD_NAME, 1,
nosenders_listen_port,
MACH_MSG_TYPE_MAKE_SEND_ONCE, &prev);
(Of course, the name ``nosenders_listen_port'' is conceptually
invalid, too)
The problem with the ``no senders'' notification was that it should be
(quite naturally) a receive right, while both mountee_{port,control}
are *send* rights.
According the GNU Mach reference manual, MACH_NOTIFY_DEAD_NAME is send
exactly when the port itself is destroyed, while the right remains.
It is not difficult to see that this is exactly the situation I am in.
Great thanks to antrik and Fredrik! :-)
Regards,
scolobb
