From e73187714d0a6b726d059e3aef426bc7a8efeea4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: behlendo <behlendo@7e1ea52c-4ff2-0310-8f11-9dd32ca42a1c>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:18:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Minor tweak to handle systems with restrictive udev rules or
 older systems which are not using udev at all.

git-svn-id: https://outreach.scidac.gov/svn/spl/trunk@158 7e1ea52c-4ff2-0310-8f11-9dd32ca42a1c
---
 scripts/check.sh | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/check.sh b/scripts/check.sh
index 3029bf8..81f2fdd 100755
--- a/scripts/check.sh
+++ b/scripts/check.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,21 @@ echo "Loading ${spl_module}"
 echo "Loading ${splat_module}"
 /sbin/insmod ${splat_module} || die "Unable to load ${splat_module}"
 
-while [ ! -c /dev/splatctl ]; do sleep 0.1; done
+# Wait a maximum of 3 seconds for udev to detect the new splatctl 
+# device, if we do not see the character device file created assume
+# udev is not running and manually create the character device.
+for i in `seq 1 50`; do
+	sleep 0.1
+
+	if [ -c /dev/splatctl ]; then
+		break
+	fi
+
+	if [ $i -eq 50 ]; then
+		mknod /dev/splatctl c 229 0
+	fi
+done
+
 $splat_cmd $tests $verbose
 
 echo "Unloading ${splat_module}"
-- 
2.40.0