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SubjectRe: Of removable devices


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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