cdcontrol purpose

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> [080114 08:57] wrote:
> So I hope my question would be clearer now: should cdcontrol be allowed
> to override "prevent" issued by mount/open(2) and eject a disk in use ?
> Or should it simply fail in the same way that the physical button is
> disabled?

It should not.

If in that situation the tool does not emit a diagnostic that's
useful then it could be augmented to do so.

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- Alfred Perlstein