Re: Of removable devices

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

In message <88f0hb$[e-mail]>, david parsons writes:
+-----
| In article <[e-mail].
| psu.edu>,
| Alexander Viro  <[e-mail]> wrote:
| >On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote:
| >> it would mount as another logical volume. Now when there was a need to
| >> access
| >> the first floppy, the OS popped up a dialog ( a requester, in amiga
| >> terminology :-)
| >> saying "Insert volume Linux_help_disk into any drive". When the user
| >
| >Ahem... OK, does anyone else see something strange in words "OS popped up
| >a dialog"?
| 
|    On a real operating system, the OS would simply notify userland, which
|    would do whatever it wanted to do.    A sensible userland might then
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Solaris manages to do this quite well without any weird interactions between 
kernel and userspace:  vold keeps track and notifies a listener which pops 
up the dialog if you're running X.  If you aren't, you get a text message 
instead.

Seriously, find a Solaris box and look at vold and rmmount.  They're not 
perfect, but they don't suck all that badly either.

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