Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:58:53 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> Solaris manages to do this quite well without any weird interactions between > kernel and userspace: vold keeps track and notifies a listener which pops > up the dialog if you're running X. If you aren't, you get a text message > instead. > > Seriously, find a Solaris box and look at vold and rmmount. They're not > perfect, but they don't suck all that badly either.
Unfortunately, they went for sucking (==non-locking) floppy drives in Ultra-5. And taking the floppy out of the drive confuses the heck of poor beast - I've paniced 5.6 with that (yes, deliberately; it took some fooling around - looked like a medium-often race).
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