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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE libs (kio_file) holding on to files and directories during
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2004-09-24 23:35:26
Message-ID: 200409241935.30400.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Friday 24 September 2004 6:19 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> dear kevin,
>
> thank you for responding about the KDirNotify: i found that, and
> investigated it.
>
> i have (as you might have noticed from other messages) made a decision
> to use:
>
> - a modified version of hal
> - a modified version of KVM
> - a modified version of autofs(4) with NEGATIVE_TIMEOUT set to 5 seconds
> - the fusexmp "fuse example" as a stateless filesystem proxy redirectory
>
> !!!
>
> this gets round the problems of the 2.6 kernel not yet doing unmounts
> properly on usb devices.
>
> it also means that users don't have to worry about "unmount", it just...
> HAPPENS!  wheeee!
>
> the only thing left i have to deal with is that damn kioslave with a
> kio_file is keeping hold of the /dev/hdc.
>
> i see comments in .xession_errors of:
>
>  Checking /dev/hdc for cdrom...
>  Testing /dev/hdc for cooked ioctl() interface
>
> it doesn't let go.
>
> how do i force it to let go?  grrrr!

Might that be audiocd?  Does it still hold it after it is no longer running?

- -Benjamin Meyer

- -- 
aka icefox
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