Re: Bug: remounting CD-ROM drives does not lock/unlock drive

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 09:51:22 EDT

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    > will lock the door. Unmounting is a different issue, because currently
    > you can't do that if the drive is opened more than once (which it will
    > be, mount + locking program). I guess we could work around this by allowing
    > root to unlock a busy drive, or some other hack like that.

    Umm.. Thats now what seems to be happening in current 2.2 btw.

    Alan

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