Re: CDROM lock

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:27:38PM +0400, Alexey Dejneka wrote:
>   devprobe hd2
>   dd if=/dev/hd2 of=/dev/null bs=1k count=1
> etc. lock CD (hd2): devprobe and storeio call device_open, which
> calls cdrom_lock_door, but they don't call device_close, which unlocks
> CD! (Should Mach call device_close, when there are no send rights to
> the device port?)

I think libstoreio and devprobe should close the device. Thanks for
reporting this, I will look into it (I think with what you said, the fix is
pretty straight forward, but I want to test anyway).

One problem is certainly if you kill the task that opened the device without
giving it a chance for proper shut down. Then the door remains locked. I
don't know if Mach can detect it, but it would be a good idea. If anybody
can work on that, do it!

Thanks,
Marcus

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