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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Samphan Raruenrom <samphan@nectec.or.th>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux TLE Team <rdi1@opentle.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [Rdi1] Re: [PATCH] Add MOUNT_STATUS ioctl to cdrom device
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:45:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826154514.GA30357@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4B7D7B.50401@nectec.or.th>

On Tue, Aug 26 2003, Samphan Raruenrom wrote:
> GNOME automounter that use the new "event status notification" and also
> let users eject their CDs -
> "without polling" - possible?
> It must be real cool to write such daemon (polling make any hacker feel 
> guilty).

I don't want to burst your bubble, but you still have to poll when using
event status notification. You didn't note that the name of my program
was cd_poll.c? ;-)

But the poll is much quicker and more reliable.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-25 18:22 [PATCH] Add MOUNT_STATUS ioctl to cdrom device Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-25 18:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-26  6:50   ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-26  7:32     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-26  9:09       ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-26  9:56         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-26  9:58           ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-26 11:30             ` [Rdi1] " Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-26 11:36               ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-26 12:44                 ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-26 14:16                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-08-26 13:58               ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-26 15:32                 ` Samphan Raruenrom
2003-08-26 15:45                   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-08-25 20:03 ` viro

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