On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:07:34AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > No, that's bad advice. What happens in that setup is the following > > 1. Eject is pressed; door opens > 2. hald polls for media; oops no media > 3. hald lazy unmounts /dev/cdrom - the media is gone so we have to > deal with it somehow; it's better than doing nothing > 4. all your programs with open fd's on /media/cdrom is screwed I do not understand why they are screwed. They cannot read (or write) them anymore, but programs should really handle this... -- pozsy