In <38AD4C16.33FE12C1@uni-mb.si> David Balazic (david.balazic@uni-mb.si) wrote:
> Jesse Pollard wrote :
>> Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>:
>> >RW> Which user's screen should that dialogue appear on?
>> >
>> >The one "close" to the floppy, of course. Associate consoles and devices.
>> >If a network user is accessing the floppy sitting next to my keyboard and I
>> >\ull the floppy out, I should be the one to get the notice. If I have two
>> >complete heads sitting on a machine and a USB floppy sitting there next to
>> >:1, then the user logged into :1 should get the notice if they pull the
>> >floppy.
>> >
>> >I'm sure the person inventive enough to work out the infrastructure for
>> >having the kernel alert a userspace notification daemon would be smart
>> >enough to allow for a device->console mapping.
>>
>> And who gets the notice if no one is there? or no one is logged in?
> <sarcasm>
> The pope !
> </sarcasm>
> The one that ejected the medium , obviously.
> echo "Put that back in , son !" > /dev/console
> satisfied ?
Not. CD-RW here was in other room then computer itself for some time
(wothout hi-tech: just hole in wall to pull LPT cable :-) So no one will
see your message on console.
> Or just make the drive "buzz" like I described in my other mail.
> ( by turning the motor on and off , and moving the head around )
Hmm. So this thing will work ONLY for floppies and not for other removeable
devices ??? Like CD-RW mentioned above ???
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