Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:19:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender: eliz AT is
To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
cc: DJGPP-WORKERS <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Busy CDs/DVDs
In-Reply-To: <200101281328.OAA16943@father.ludd.luth.se>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010128161545.20461C-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk


On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> My view is we should always report a disc. It doesn't matter is it's
> busy or not. This will mean we will report audio CDs too. But we
> already do that if it isn't playing. I think it's better to be
> consistent.

My view is that if the data can be accessed as file(s), it is okay to 
report the disk.  If the data cannot be accessed as file(s), it would be 
nice if we could avoid reporting them.  However, if it is hard or 
impossible to make the distinction, we should document that and continue.

For example, the code in mntent.c shipped with v2.03 would sometimes 
report an audio CD because I didn't find any way to detect them without 
breaking something more important.