Bug#512824: Related to bug #305846?

Julien Valroff julien at kirya.net
Sun Mar 8 17:15:07 UTC 2009


Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 18:11 +0100, Aljaž Prusnik a écrit :
> On ned, 2009-03-08 at 17:24 +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> > Windows seems however to behave wrong in terms of removable media, as
> > far as I have tested at work. Every user logged in as the control of the
> > removable media, which can be problematic, as per my earlier example.
> > 
> 
> I agree. But since Windows is around for such a long time and even
> though this might be wrong it still causes less problems than this
> implementation (let's say not a fact but an anecdotal fact ;) ). 

Not a reference for me anyway :)

> > > Or the media should rather be auto-unmounted and left there un-owned
> > > until some other user chooses to mount it (via GUI not the commandline).
> > > If you take your variant then you'll have to make a criteria which of
> > > the let's say 5 still logged in user should get the ownership and what
> > > happens if the original owner returns and wants its media back. :)
> > No, it can't be unmounted: the second user, still logged in, could have
> > files open on the removable media!
> 
> Maybe the owner could get asked to whom he'd like to pass on the
> ownership within the log-out process?

Why not. I will open a bug upstream to check what developers think this
can be implemented.

> Anyways - this fix you mentioned - will it also get into stable?

No, it won't go to lenny. I think Joss will apply it to experimental
soon as it seems to be a long awaited fix. GNOME 2.24 is still
essentially in experimental, but some packages have been uploaded to
unstable in the last days.
I guess you will find the fix in testing within a few weeks/months.

Cheers,
Julien

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