From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Let non-root users eject their ipods?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:48:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A835D7.4090608@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051220133939.GI3734@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> There's still the quirky problem of forcing a locked tray out. In some
> cases this is what you want, if things get stuck for some reason or
> another. But usually the tray is locked for a good reason, because there
> are active users of the device.
>
> Say two processes has the cdrom open, one of them doing io (maybe even
> writing!), the other could do a CDROMEJECT now and force the ejection of
> a busy drive.
>
I think the whole area of permissions for locking the tray and doing
eject need rethinking. I won't rehash what I have said before, that if I
have write permission growisofs should be able to lock the tray.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-20 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-20 2:51 [RFC] Let non-root users eject their ipods? john stultz
2005-12-20 3:51 ` Wakko Warner
2005-12-20 3:49 ` john stultz
2005-12-20 5:05 ` Matthew Dharm
2005-12-24 21:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-20 5:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-12-20 6:06 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-20 8:56 ` Sander
2005-12-20 9:31 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-20 9:38 ` Sander
2005-12-20 16:39 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-12-20 11:10 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-12-20 7:46 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 12:41 ` Ben Collins
2005-12-20 13:28 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 13:32 ` Ben Collins
2005-12-20 13:39 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 14:07 ` [PATCH] block: Better CDROMEJECT Ben Collins
2005-12-20 14:16 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 20:41 ` john stultz
2005-12-20 20:54 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 20:55 ` john stultz
2005-12-20 20:58 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-20 20:58 ` john stultz
2005-12-20 20:55 ` Ben Collins
2005-12-20 16:48 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-12-22 10:56 ` [RFC] Let non-root users eject their ipods? Alan Cox
2005-12-22 16:57 ` john stultz
2005-12-24 21:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
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2005-12-20 20:21 ` Bodo Eggert
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