From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: Matt <dirtbird@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Can't eject a previously mounted CD?
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:44:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072485880.4136.1.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FECD2FB.4070008@ntlworld.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-27 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-27 0:31 Can't eject a previously mounted CD? Matt
2003-12-27 0:44 ` Rob Love [this message]
2003-12-27 1:13 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-27 15:11 ` Matt
2003-12-27 3:12 ` Joshua Kwan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-29 1:56 Walt H
2003-12-29 2:04 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 3:45 ` Walt H
2003-12-29 6:23 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 7:41 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 7:56 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 16:36 ` Walt H
2003-12-29 17:53 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 18:05 ` Walt H
2003-12-29 19:23 ` Walt H
2003-12-29 19:40 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-26 8:15 Joshua Kwan
2003-12-26 10:34 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-12-26 19:44 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-12-26 19:54 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-26 20:27 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-12-26 23:26 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-26 23:56 ` Nuno Silva
2003-12-27 2:28 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-12-29 0:20 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-29 0:28 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29 1:36 ` Ed Sweetman
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