Re: [PATCH] gnome-vfs: Don't monitor read-only filesystems

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:18:54AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Hmmm. Nautilus already does this. However, there was a race condition on
> mount which made this not always work, which i fixed last week.
> 
> Maybe the check makes more sense in gnome-vfs than nautilus though,
> since other apps can monitor stuff. I'm not sure about returning an
> error though. Nautilus just makes a monitor that never signals any
> change.

I think it makes more sense in gnome-vfs, the recent-files stuff
monitors all files in the list, which causes problems when unmounting
cdroms. I am not that familiar with gnome-vfs code, what result should
the code return in this situation?

John