cdcontrol purpose

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon Jan 14 09:21:55 PST 2008


on 14/01/2008 19:06 Alfred Perlstein said the following:
> * 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.

Sorry, I am not completely sure which question you answered with that,
damn alternative questions :-)

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


-- 
Andriy Gapon


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