Re: passive translator timeout

[Patrick Strasser]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> The only correct solution is to have a daemon that sits and kicks in
> when the eject button is pressed and removes the active translator
> when that happens.

Or let the translator register with some notification service provided 
by the CDROM driver. Other things might also want to register, like some 
kind of automounter or HW-detection. Or a tool that shows CDROM status 
(open/closed, stopped/spinning, disk/no disk, translator set...).

Patrick
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