[haiku-gsoc] Re: Handling Device Unmounting

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:25:42 +0200 CEST

"Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Actually, Axel added that feature (B_FORCE_UNMOUNT), though I don't
> > think it
> > makes that much sense. I'd rather show the list of programs that
> > still have
> > open FDs, so that the user can quit them or convince them to close
> > the FDs.
> Since the only option would usually be to close that app, I would
> prefer to keep that option around. However, showing the apps in the
> requester (along with a "Retry" button) does make a lot of sense.

And don't forget that also queries count as open file handles that
prevent unmounting, at least currently they do - this is something we
should change, though.

Bye,
   Axel.


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