Re: I can eject a mounted CD

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:25:36 +0200

On Wed, Apr 18 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > rpm -e magicdev
> >
> > Magicdev is not installed.
> > Ok, I'm the only one with this problem, I'll manage to find the bug by myself.
>
> 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

yes, unlocking is definitely possible and then of course a manual eject.
Only by root of course, however an ioctl eject should fail unless the
cdrom really isn't busy (ie mounted or has other opens).

-- 
Jens Axboe


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