[plug] kill them dead

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006, Arie Hol wrote:

> > media operation? Does the hardware let you? Will you be in a consistent
> > state if you do? Its not always immediately obvious. If its the device
> > that locks up during an operation should you abort the process' 
> operation
> > and silently fail all subsequent attempts at device IO? I don't think
> > thats the "unix" way.. 
> > 
> 
> It may not be the fault of Linux....
> 
> There could be a problem with the optical drive - or the drive may have a 
> problem with certain types of media.
> 

Yeah, but some people may think that particular situation should be recoverable/
interruptable. The drive can stay locked but the process should be interruptable.

Its not always that easy to implement. Thats what I was trying to say.



Adrian