Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:10:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pre8/asm-i386/string.h + de4x5 -> no go |
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jens Axboe wrote:
> If you don't open O_NONBLOCK cdrom tries to open the device for data > and fails when no medium is inserted. You should be able to eject > it fine (or issue other ioctl's), as long as you do that. strace of > eject : > > open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ERRNO_123 (No medium found) > > Whereas > > fd = open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); > ioctl(fs, CDROMEJECT);
That'll explain why I haven't seen this since installing RH5.2, then :)
Matthew.
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