HAL ejects
Pozsar Balazs
pozsy at uhulinux.hu
Wed Jan 26 11:24:11 UTC 2005
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:07:34AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> No, that's bad advice. What happens in that setup is the following
>
> 1. Eject is pressed; door opens
> 2. hald polls for media; oops no media
> 3. hald lazy unmounts /dev/cdrom - the media is gone so we have to
> deal with it somehow; it's better than doing nothing
> 4. all your programs with open fd's on /media/cdrom is screwed
I do not understand why they are screwed. They cannot read (or write)
them anymore, but programs should really handle this...
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pozsy
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