Re: [PATCH] close windows on unmount

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn ant uni-bremen de>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 06:52, Ryan McDougall wrote:
>
> > I can't speak about how this are done (since my Unix skills are still
> > developing), but I can prattle on about how they should work. ;)
> >
> > Frankly, if automount can't express transient data storage adequately
> > with traditional Unix semantics, then it deserves to go the way of the
> > Dodo. With USB keys, cameras, etc. becoming very common, in addition to
> > the networked file systems we've had for a while, one needs a more
> > flexible way of handling such devices. Thus we have sysfs, HAL, dbus,
> > etc coming down the pipe; which is probably the long term solution.
> >
> > As for what *I* would decide if it was *me* making the decision and
> > can't wait for more sophistication at the kernel level: Assume every
> > volume is transient -- the ground beneath you is always moving. 
> >
> > Nautilus should always remain open, but should never prevent unmounts.
> > If a FS is unmounted underneath an open window, the window should be
> > shaded grayish to notify the user something is wrong. If the user clicks
> > on an object of the FS, Nautilus states that its has lost the
> > "connection" to the FS, and offers to re-mount it. If it fails to re-
> > mount the FS, say because the user doesn't have permission to mount that
> > volume, *then* Nautilus finally closes the window.
> >
> > What do you think? Does it cover all cases? It shouldn't prevent
> > floppies from unmounting, it should allow automount to work properly,
> > and its fairly general to any transient FS.
>
>
> It might be a good idea, but if we want to get file change notification,
> there just *isn't* a way to not prevent unmount. Dnotify requires you to
> keep the directory fd open, and this prevents unmount. Nothing we can do
> about it.
Then i have to manually close the window (or cd to $HOME), if i want to 
 dismount a filesystem. No problem, same as with command line.

Heinrich