On Tue, Dec 20 2005, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 14:39 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Should be an easy check to add. In fact, I'll resend both patches with
> > > that in place if you want.
> >
> > 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.
>
> But that's possible now with "eject -s" as long as you have write access
> to it. Most users are using "eject -s" anyway.
>
> You can't stop this from happening. However, the fact is that a lot of
> devices (iPod's being the most popular) require this to work.
Well just because it (unfortunately) is already done by some other path,
doesn't make it a good idea by default and necessarily a reason to
further such bad principles.
The only way to really fix this would be requiring programs issuing
direct commands to a device to have it opened O_EXCL (and making sure
this actually works, right now it doesn't).
In reality, we are probably screwed :/
--
Jens Axboe
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