KDE not releasing visited directories?

[Robin Atwood]

On Saturday 12 Oct 2002 15:20, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote:
> > > When I use Konq to view a CD, then navigate konq to view an other
> > > directory not on the CD, then I can not unmount the CD and get it
> > > out of the CD drive until I close Konq.
> >
> > I find this happens if the CD's subdirectories are shown in the
> > tree listing, try making sure to collapse the branch under your CD
> > mount point.
>
> That trick does not work here.
> The CD is still stuck until I close the Konq window.

This is a feature/bug with the way KDE uses fam: try "lsof /mnt/cdrom" and I 
expect you will see fam has opened the directory. The only way I know to cure 
this is to kill fam. Incidentally the problem occurs with all demountable 
devices.
HTH
-Robin.
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