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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 20:28:46 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Stevie O <stevie@qrpff.net>
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous CDROM Events in Userland
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Stevie O wrote:

> At 09:07 PM 2/3/2002 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Rather than a signal, it should be a file descriptor of some sort, so
>> one can select() etc on it.  Personally I can't imagine polling would
>> take any appreciable amount of resources, though.
> 
> 
> Windows 95 polls the cd-rom drive for autorun.
> It kills laptop batteries REAL quick.
> CPU & memory aren't the only resources...
> 

Does it spin up the CD-ROM doing so?

	-hpa

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