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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Trapping eject button on CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:01:03 -0800
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To: Jon Niehof <jon_niehof@yahoo.com>
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Jon Niehof wrote:
> Apologies if this has been asked before; I read a
> HOWTO that seemed to imply it was possible but haven't
> seen anything beyond that.
> 
> Is it possible to configure autofs to "catch" the
> eject button on a CD-ROM and unmount the filesystem
> (presuming it's not busy, of course), then eject?
> 

No.

If you monitor insert and eject you don't want autofs anyway.  You want 
something like what Solaris calls "vold".

	-hpa