kdeeject - unmouting media patch

[Volker Krause]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 13:27, Christian Hubinger wrote:
> not really :-(
> here on my woody ejectt unmounts the device when i type eject /cdrom BUT if
> i'm using the device name eject /dev/cdrom (which is a symbolic link) eject
> does not umount and throws an error.
> i don't know if thats special to the debian version of eject but here it
> definately does not work with the real device names (as used in /etc/fstab)
>
> animal at shit:~$ mount /dev/cdrom
> animal at shit:~$ eject /dev/cdrom <- does not work
> eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> animal at shit:~$ umount /dev/cdrom
> animal at shit:~$ eject /dev/cdrom <- works
>
> animal at shit:~$ mount /dev/cdrom
> animal at shit:~$ eject /cdrom <- works
>
> so this seems to be a bug in eject. But i think for a quick workaround of
> that situation the patch i sent should be ok.
>
> Please let me know if this behaviour is special to the debian version of
> eject, so that i can fill a bugreport about it.

seems to work here with eject from SuSE 8.2:
vkpc3:/home/vkrause # eject -V
eject version 2.0.13 by Jeff Tranter (tranter at pobox.com)

regards
Volker