RE: eject on Cygwin?

Davidlohr Bueso
2012-04-23T10:25:00Z

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:49 +0200, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:31:11AM +0200, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > > Is there a specific reason for this line in configure.ac?
> > > UL_REQUIRES_LINUX([eject])
> > >
> > > Can't Cygwin handle /dev/scd0 correctly?
> >
> > I don't know, the code also depends on /sys to detect if the device
> > is removable, it calls umount(2) syscall, etc.
>
> okay, thanks.
> Anyway, porting u-l to cygwin is not much fun anymore,
> e.g. due to new close_stdout() which needs __fpending, and
> lib/randutils.c needs sys/syscall.h to check if __NR_gettid
> is defined etc.

Plus, like eject, most tools use a lot of sysfs and procfs files, which
are pretty Linux-specific.

>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
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