Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Of removable devices | Date | 16 Feb 2000 12:15:39 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.GSO.4.10.10002161324530.13707-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > > >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote: > >> AmigaOS just polled the line to detect insertions and removals. > >Wonderful. And how frequent the polling was? > >> it would mount as another logical volume. Now when there was a need to >> access >> the first floppy, the OS popped up a dialog ( a requester, in amiga >> terminology :-) >> saying "Insert volume Linux_help_disk into any drive". When the user > >Ahem... OK, does anyone else see something strange in words "OS popped up >a dialog"?
No.
On a real operating system, the OS would simply notify userland, which would do whatever it wanted to do. A sensible userland might then spit out a dialog telling the user to put the disk in question back into the machine, or it might ignore the frantic request from the kernel, at which point the OS would return EYOULOSE to the poor process that tried to access the no longer existing process.
Think about kerneld/kmod/whatever it is this week.
____ david parsons \bi/ Not exactly rocket science here. \/
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