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SubjectRe: CD changers
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:43:29PM -0700, Robert L Harris wrote:
> How about something similar to a soft-automounter implementation? If another
> slot isn't in use, have the code unmount the current one and then mount
> the desired slot?

I did such a beast for automount, it's a small additional something
to automount, which starts by reading the numbers of slots of the cd
and allowing chdir()'s into imaginary directories 0..slots-1.
Whenever you enter a directory, it changes to it. However this
horrible fails if something is still busy on another disk, since
the umount will fail and.. and...

Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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