Calin A. Culianu wrote:
>>>
>>Does it spin up the CD-ROM doing so?
>>
>
> Probably it doesn't, but just having the cpu be non-idle when it could
> otherwise be idle does add up over time. In linux, polling the cdrom
> *seems* inexpensive enough, but if you look at 'top' it seems to average
> out to like 1-2% cpu time! (Ok, these stats aren't super-accurate,
> they're just from running 'top' with the kde autorun tool running).
>
> [Admitedly, the autorun tool is written kind of strangely (it does one
> redundant ioctl, plus it wait()s on its children constantly rather than
> installing a signal handler), but still.. it would be nice to get those
> extra cycles for quake3 or wolfenstein...]
>
That just indicates a bullsh*t program. It's also pretty certain that
these kinds of things don't belong in the GUI; one of the things I'd
like to do at some point is to write a daemon to mount things on insert
(vold).
-hpa
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