Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 17:53:53 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Of removable devices |
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On 16 Feb 2000, david parsons wrote:
> >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.
Oh, _please_! kmod is the last thing you want here. _If_ you are going to go this way at all, use select() or poll().
-- Why invent magical interfaces when there are regular ones? Sheesh...
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