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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:03:35 +0200
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To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
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Subject: Re: I can eject a mounted CD
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 03:06:22PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Giuliano Pochini wrote:

> > > vmware and one or two other apps I've also seen do this. WHen you unlock the
> > > cdrom door as root you can unlock it even if a file system is mounted
> > 
> > Right, so I'll check what eject(1) does. It might eject the disk even if it
> > failed to unmount.
> 
> It shouldn't be able to. But check and see what happens.

(1) There are many different programs all called eject(1).
I find at least four of them on this machine.

(2) I missed the start of the discussion; if this is a SCSI cdrom then
many eject programs will use raw SCSI commands and the kernel does not
try to parse raw SCSI commands so does not know that it is ejecting
a mounted cdrom.

Andries
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