> If you don't open O_NONBLOCK cdrom tries to open the device for data
> and fails when no medium is inserted. You should be able to eject
> it fine (or issue other ioctl's), as long as you do that. strace of
> eject :
>
> open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY) = -1 ERRNO_123 (No medium found)
>
> Whereas
>
> fd = open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK);
> ioctl(fs, CDROMEJECT);
That'll explain why I haven't seen this since installing RH5.2, then :)
Matthew.
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