On Wed 28 January 2004 16:07, Joerg Schilling wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 27 21:08:37 2004 > > >Aha, thanks for explaining that. This does pose a bit of a > > problem though if you have both: say I insert a CD, then the > > volume manager sees it and mounts it. Then I go to my magic > > automounter directory and it tries to mount it too. Problem. > > Doing away with the automounter means users have to mount disks > > by hand (which my mum would probably find too complicated), > > while doing away with the volume management means that users > > get no feedback after they inserted a CD in the drive, which is > > less bad but still undesirable from a user interface > > perspective. > > This is a reason why Apple and Sun introduced such a beast on the > 1980s > > >So how about this. We run a normal automounter. The volume > > manager does not actually mount disks, but just reads the > > volume label. > > This is enough to interrupt the CD writing process in a way that > creates a coaster.
Is there any way at all to check whether a CD is being written without disturbing the writing process? Lourens -- GPG public key: http://home.student.utwente.nl/l.e.veen/lourens.key