[Utopia] Re: [patch] gvm and locking

[Robert Love <rml ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:49 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:

Hey David!

> Here is a patch for gnome-volume-manager such that policy is not
> enforced when media is inserted into a drive that another process has a
> hal advisory lock on. 
> 
> This is useful as it solves the problem of g-v-m popping up a burn
> Nautilus window when nautilus-cd-burner is asking me to insert a disc.
> Hence, with this patch n-c-b can just lock the hal device object
> representing the drive. Btw, I think Alexander Larsson is working on
> such a patch for n-c-b.
> 
> The patch also bumps the requirement to the latest and greatest version
> of hal as only this one got Joe's sweet locking code in.

Nice.  Patch merged to HEAD.

Thanks,

	Robert Love