KDirLister keeps mounted devices in use

Lubos Lunak l.lunak at suse.cz
Tue Jan 14 12:33:04 GMT 2003


On Tuesday 14 of January 2003 12:46, Chris Kuhi wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:18, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Monday 13 of January 2003 21:27, Michael Brade wrote:
> > > Furthermore, for recognizing cdrom, floppy etc I'd need to modify
> > > probably slow mounted to check for the "noauto" mount option, i.e. a
> > > filesystem that is not automatically mounted with mount -a.  That 
> > > should be considered slow. Any objections to do so?
> >
> >  Why don't you simply implement a new function checking for manually
> > mounted filesystems? I don't think the "noauto" option necessarily means
> > slowness.
>
> I have to agree with Lubos (or is Lunak your first name?), you can't make
> any assumptions of that sort.  As I already said above, a very good start
> would be to implement a hook for KDE's umount command to immediately
> release any directories it is trying to unmount and that will solve the
> problem for most of the users who wouldn't be capable of figuring out
> what's wrong since they'd be using the graphical interface anyway.

 (Yes, it's Luboš.) I don't like this solution. I sometimes mix mouting using 
the GUI and manually where no KDE hook would help, and preloaded Konqy would 
block the unmount in such case.

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Lubos Lunak
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