Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 04 Feb 2002 20:28:46 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland |
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Stevie O wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 2/3/2002 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Rather than a signal, it should be a file descriptor of some sort, so >> one can select() etc on it. Personally I can't imagine polling would >> take any appreciable amount of resources, though. > > > Windows 95 polls the cd-rom drive for autorun. > It kills laptop batteries REAL quick. > CPU & memory aren't the only resources... >
Does it spin up the CD-ROM doing so?
-hpa
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