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Re: passive translator timeout
From: |
Yaakov |
Subject: |
Re: passive translator timeout |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:04:28 -0700 (PDT) |
--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
> it will continue running until the Hurd is rebooted, and then the
> Hurd will forget its existence.
>
> It will continue to run till the day you kill it, be it with
> `settrans
> -ag', figureing out which pid it has and using `kill' or killing the
> system.
>
> I don't want an active translator,
>
> Unless you don't want to access the cdrom, you do.
>
> i actually want a translator that is "more passive" than what is
> currently defined as passive.
>
> A passive translator is meta-data in the file-system, you can't be
> more passive then that. It only becomes active when you access the
> node in some way.
>
> > is there an easy way to allow me to eject a cdrom when not in
> > use and retain the passive translator?
> >
> > settrans -ag /cdrom
>
> The option -g only works when setting a passive translator to
> replace an active translator. the point of those options is what
> do you do with the active translator that is still running.
>
> No, -ag kills the active translator. You wanted to be able to eject
> the cdrom and retain the passive translator, `settrans -ag /cdrom'
> does that.
it still requires me to type something in to eject the cd drive, and i
now officially declare the reference manual too confusing. i guess i'm
still used to the windoze habit of being able to eject a cd drive
through the hardware (which i consider a feature...) just the logical
conclusion to me is to make the active translator unload itself after
say 250ms
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