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Cc: gnn@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cdcontrol purpose
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> [080114 09:18] wrote:
>> on 14/01/2008 19:06 Alfred Perlstein said the following:
>>> * Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> [080114 08:57] wrote:
>>>> So I hope my question would be clearer now: should cdcontrol be allowed
>>>> to override "prevent" issued by mount/open(2) and eject a disk in use ?
>>>> Or should it simply fail in the same way that the physical button is
>>>> disabled?
>>> It should not.
>> Sorry, I am not completely sure which question you answered with that,
>> damn alternative questions :-)
>>
> 
> Regarding: 
> 
>>>> should cdcontrol be allowed
>>>> to override "prevent" issued by mount/open(2) and eject a disk in use ?
> 
> It should not do this.  It should NOT eject a disk in use.
> 
> Furthermore:
> 
>>> If in that situation the tool does not emit a diagnostic that's
>>> useful then it could be augmented to do so.
> 
> 
> 

When I tried this last it indeed did not eject a mounted CDROM.  I 
wonder if Andriy's hardware is not responding to the "lock media" 
command or something.  Can anyone else confirm this behaviour?

Kris