Subject: Re: device attachement detection from userland
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/16/2006 16:09:54
Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> wrote:
> AmigaOS (the DOS part) used to:
>
> - remind you to insert a volume into any drive when you accessed it for
> reading/writing and it wasn't available
>
> - remind you to insert a volume INTO (the) DRIVE ${where it was before,}
> (dammit, right now!) if some metadata weren't written yet when you removed
> it.
MacOS did that too, but how does that fit with Unix non interractive
processes?
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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