no you are in the weed there On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Boris Prohaska <borisproha...@gmx.at> wrote: > Thats exactly the problem. IF the OS was aware of it, then there would be no > problem. There is also no setting for timeouts etc when performing blocking > operations onto the filesystem. > Maybe that is a OS X limitation?? > > Boris > > On 14.06.2010, at 17:04, Ken Thomases wrote: > >> On Jun 14, 2010, at 4:52 AM, Boris Prohaska wrote: >> >>> i was just wondering, is there any way to determine when for example a >>> network cable is plugged off while copying data to a network share? The >>> Finder has a pretty long timeout... >>> >>> Is there a way in the FS API or ANY other way to get notified, when a >>> volume isn't available for writing anymore? >> >> If you just want to know when a volume disappears (is unmounted), >> NSWorkspace provides notifications for that. But I don't think that will >> address the issue you describe. >> >> The problem is that the volume hasn't disappeared, it's just incommunicado >> as far as the OS is concerned. If it had disappeared in a way that the OS >> was aware of, then there would be no way for something to be stuck writing >> to it (or to begin writing to it, etc.). That is, there would be no paths >> to it for opening new file descriptors and all existing file descriptors >> would return errors on access. >> >> -Ken > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/0xcafefeed%40gmail.com > > This email sent to 0xcafef...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________
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