The "umount - device is busy" issue: wbumount

Pat Suwalski pat at suwalski.net
Tue Apr 20 19:37:22 EEST 2004


Anthony Metcalf wrote:
>>Other
>>apps like Nautilus/Konquerer would just close relevant windows on
>>unmount without asking, of course.
> 
> Please god no, this is one windows behavior I hate. Ever wanted to find
> a file and not knowen which cd it was on? insert navigate read, eject
> insert read insert read....becomes insert navigate read eject insert
> navigate read insert...

It's a behaviour I like, based on having my Windows set to always open 
the CD window in Explorer back up when I insert a new disk. This is also 
how MacOS pre-X has always done it.

But I fail to see how easily this could be implemented if 'umount' were 
to be kept legacy-safe.

--Pat




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