Re: [Libcdio-devel] New MMC routines and thoughts on eject

[Burkhard Plaum]

Hi,

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 16:38, Burkhard Plaum wrote:
>
> > I cannot think of a situation, where an application should care about
> > how the eject is realized internally, but maybe I'm wrong.
>
> The problem is that on some operating systems and under some circumstances, 
> you need the application doing the eject to be suid root for instance.
>
> unieject needs to be in plugdev group, as pmount is, to be able to use pumount 
> for instance, and thus be allowed to eject HAL-mounted devices.

Ok, that's obvious, but what eject API would you suggest then?

Burkhard