Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:36:37 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: I can eject a mounted CD |
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On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > > > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen > > > > you unlock the cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a > > > > file system is mounted > > > > > > Right, so I'll check what eject(1) does. It might eject the disk > > > even if it failed to unmount. > > > > It shouldn't be able to. But check and see what happens. > > (1) There are many different programs all called eject(1). I find at > least four of them on this machine. > > (2) I missed the start of the discussion; if this is a SCSI cdrom then > many eject programs will use raw SCSI commands and the kernel does not > try to parse raw SCSI commands so does not know that it is ejecting a > mounted cdrom.
#2 can be done on any CDROM these days in fact, if eject uses CDROM_SEND_PACKET then it can _always_ open the tray as well regardless of mount status etc.
-- Jens Axboe
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