Re: [Nautilus-list] [BUG] nautilus wreaks CD/doors!

[Dennis Bjorklund <db zigo dhs org>]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Darin Adler wrote:

> > (For nautilus to eject the drive when it isn't the party that unmounts
> > it strikes me as prettty dubious.)
> 
> I guess I don't really know what the current Nautilus code does or why. This
> was an area of Nautilus that I stayed out of during 1.0 development. Maybe
> there's some quick surgery we can do to get rid of this behavior without
> causing any other damage.
> 
> If I don't get a patch for this in the next few days I'll tackle it myself.

You might want to read this also:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58126

In linux the kernel already ejects the cd when you umount it. This is 
controlled by /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/autoeject. It defaults to not eject.

Why should nautilus do this at all on linux? Maybe on other systems if
they don't perform the autoeject already.

-- 
/Dennis