KDirLister keeps mounted devices in use

[David Faure]

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On Thursday 16 January 2003 13:08, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> Perhaps the best for now would be:
> - use KWirWatch with STAT or FAM
> - if using FAM, use STAT inside of FAM (and not DNOTIFY).
> Thus, unmounting is always possible.

But it means polling (i.e. using lots of CPU) which is stupid on normal hard 
disk partitions (which will never get unmounted while KDE is up).
Performance-wise, DNOTIFY is much better than the other solutions.

But if we say "we could detect "umount"able partitions and not use DNOTIFY on
them", we're back to "how to detect such partitions...

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
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