On Thursday 13 December 2007 12:28:39 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/12/2007 12:13 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > > On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:42:00 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 13/12/2007 09:30 Nikos Vassiliadis said the following: > >>> On Wednesday 12 December 2007 18:58:44 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>>> Hmm. Looked at the code and it should be as expected. Played with > >>>> various stuff and here's what I think: it seems that having > >>>> atapicam and hald and maybe something in KDE that polls for CD > >>>> change is to blame. > >>> > >>> I have no atapicam in my kernel. Nor hald running. > >>> I reproduced it like this: > >>> mount /cdrom > >>> cdcontrol eject > >> > >> I don't think you reproduced it. Why would you execute the above > >> command unless it is your intention to eject the disk ? > > > > You got it wrong. cdcontrol *does not* eject the disk, it works > > correctly, as it should. cdcontrol never ejects mounted media. > > Well, I got it right, it's just that in my opinion you knew what you > were doing.
Thanks for the wording... > > > It triggers the situation where I can then press the eject key > > on the cdrom and really eject the cdrom. > > It would be interesting to see what exact ioctls/commands cdcontrol > issues. ktrace+kdump can help with this. Assuming your drive is ATAPI > (not SCSI) then if only CDIOCEJECT is issued then the drive should not > become unlocked. How can this be interesting? cdcontrol does not open the tray. cdcontrol gets an EBUSY and exits. The button does. So, it seems to the - naive - me that the error is somewhere in the kernel. > > Nevertheless ejecting a mounted medium is wrong. And that's not > > a feature. This is obviously a problem, regardless of how you > > trigger it. Would you like to file a PR? > > Well, I see your point and probably I would agree 80% with you :-) > But this issue seems to be a little bit different from the issue that > concerns me most (which I explained in another email). > Someone could reply to your problem with that old joke: > - Doctor, it hurts when I do this. > - Then don't do it. I believe that the "old joke" doesn't apply here. I will file a PR when I'll have available time. Nikos _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
