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SubjectRe: Can't eject a previously mounted CD?
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On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 19:31, Matt wrote:
> If you are on debian i have noticed recently that gnomevfs (on unstable)
> requires famd. famd will open /cdrom after it is mounted and run a dir
> notification on it. now i think famd needs some fixing, firstly to not
> bother running dir notice on ro filesystems, and secondly allow an
> authorised user (other than the original program (in this case
> nautilus)) to drop specific mount point dirs from the notification list.
> so yes this is a userland problem as far as i can see.

Yup.

But it sure is lame that our directory notification system (dnotify)
needs to hold open a file descriptor on the directory, and thus really
wrecks havoc on removable media.

Would be nice to have a saner replacement - for other reasons, too.

Rob Love


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