Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:47:56 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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>From rdzidlic@faui02.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Tue Jul 16 12:37:56 2002
>> >The potential for breakage is huge, people run automounters on CD's, >> >file managers may try to mount the CD without asking the user. >> >> The bad news is that it seems that the automounters are part of the GUIs and >> not well enough documented. There should be: >> >> - Something like the Solaris volume manager that is part of the base OS >> and kernel folks should forbid GUI folks to add such tasks to the GUI
>Solaris vold? Thanks no, floppy access was so easy in SunOS before the >days of the volume manager.
.... and it is even simpler since vold is present. Call volcheck to tell vold that the media changed or use a SCSI floppy which supports to tell the kernel that a media change did happen.
>> - The volume manager should have a documented interface that allows >> programs like e.g. cdrecord to gain exclusive access to a CD drive.
>much simpler, cdrom driver needs an ioctl to claim exclusive use of >the device and cdrecord than needs to use that ioctl.
This will not work. What should happen when the drive is mounted?
Jörg
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