Re: THE LINUX REMOVABLE DEVICE PETITION

[Ikke <nicolas trangez gmail com>]

This remains tightly bound to using Gnome tough. There is a worl outside too ;-)
No just kidding. IMHO a more 'global' (i.e. OS-wide) solution should
be possible, not bound to a DE, specific API or whatever.

Regards, Nicolas

On 23 Jun 2004 13:38:35 +0200, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 00:48, nf wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have created a website to point out the main issues with removable
> > devices and unmounting - a place to collect information and to discuss
> > possible solutions.
> >
> > http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/petition/
> >
> > Please help me improving it, add comments and links, discuss it...
> >
> > Work in progress...
> 
> While I agree with yor view that we should have a notification system
> that doesn't block unmounts I'd like to point that we *do* try to fix
> this issue in nautilus. Whenever something is unmounted using nautilus
> (or any app using gnome-vfs to unmount) the pre_unmount signal is sent
> to all apps using GnomeVFSVolumeMonitor. When nautilus gets this signal,
> it immediately unmonitors any mounts on that device.
> 
> It might be the case that this doesn't always work. I know that
> historically there has been issues with this, including fam sometimes
> leaking file descriptors that made this not work, but I'm not currently
> aware of anything being broken.
> 
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