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Re: passive translator timeout
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: passive translator timeout |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:31:21 +0200 (CEST) |
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.
Cheers.