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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Damien Kick, Austin, TX (US);
Damien Kick, Austin, TX (US);
KIP CR P1 LP, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer program products for determining completion of asynchronous commands in a library system and providing an indication of the completion to a synchronous component of the media library system so that commands which are dependent upon the completion can be efficiently issued and executed. In one embodiment, a tape is mounted in a drive of the library and a command is issued to initiate an asynchronous filesystem mount operation. Diagnostic information generated by the operating system for this operation is communicated to the media library management application via a pipe. When the filesystem mount process is completed, a corresponding diagnostic message is communicated to the media library management application through the pipe. Until this message is received by the media library management application, commands that are dependent upon the completion of the filesystem mount process are inhibited, and afterward these dependent commands are allowed to be issued.