Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Can't eject a previously mounted CD? | From | Rob Love <> | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:44:40 -0500 |
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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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