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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:06:24 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        gnn@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cdcontrol purpose
Message-ID:  <20080114170624.GR99258@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <478B953F.1070209@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <478B3EE0.8040908@icyb.net.ua> <7iir1wtp91.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20080114160617.GN99258@elvis.mu.org> <478B953F.1070209@icyb.net.ua>

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* 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.

If in that situation the tool does not emit a diagnostic that's
useful then it could be augmented to do so.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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