Re: THE LINUX REMOVABLE DEVICE PETITION

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

Yeah, make sure it works on windows and with cell phones and pdas too. 
Don't want to do an OS specific thing, we need to build a super general 
silver bullet.

;-)

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 9:05am, Ikke wrote:
> 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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> >
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