it will continue running until the Hurd is rebooted, and then the
   Hurd will forget its existence.

It will continue to run till the day you kill it, be it with `settrans
-ag', figureing out which pid it has and using `kill' or killing the
system.

   I don't want an active translator,

Unless you don't want to access the cdrom, you do.

   i actually want a translator that is "more passive" than what is
   currently defined as passive.

A passive translator is meta-data in the file-system, you can't be
more passive then that.  It only becomes active when you access the
node in some way.

   >    is there an easy way to allow me to eject a cdrom when not in
   >    use and retain the passive translator?
   > 
   > settrans -ag /cdrom

   The option -g only works when setting a passive translator to
   replace an active translator.  the point of those options is what
   do you do with the active translator that is still running.

No, -ag kills the active translator.  You wanted to be able to eject
the cdrom and retain the passive translator, `settrans -ag /cdrom'
does that.


Cheers.


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