Re: submount?

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 verizon net>]

On Monday 24 May 2004 3:22 pm, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > On Monday 24 May 2004 2:53 pm, Dan Williams wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>This should more or less already happen, at least for FC2 in GNOME.  If
> >>you insert a CD and it doesn't pop up on the desktop or in the
> >>"Computer" window, its a bug that should go into bugzilla.  Also,
> >>ongoing work with gnome-volume-manager will integrate automounting of
> >>CDs, USB key drives, and other removable media into the GTK file
> >>chooser.
>
> But everyone hates magicdev, right? ;) The locking interactions seem,
> um, confused at times. I'm happy that the real solution is on the
> horizon, I hope the Utopia stack will be in shape for FC3...
>

Is there no solution to the locking issue?  I would hope it was possible to 
unlock and eject a cd/dvd when the user presses the button on the drive.  I 
don't know anything about the actual mechanism for it, but I do know that 
other OS's seem to manage this feat.