2011/6/13 Caolán McNamara <caol...@redhat.com>: > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 14:05 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: >> b. the gentle way. It should be possible somehow that the system >> informs the app (here writer) that the underlying filesystem will be >> unmounted, and the app should take the right action. I do not know >> how, maybe via the fd, is there a certain call (fnctl, or somehing...) >> or somethings else. > > The gio api from glib2 provides a fair amount of this sort of thing, > e.g. callbacks when something is unmounted or whatever. There is one > standalone example of it in sfx2 for detecting if the unix quickstarter > is running while LibreOffice gets upgraded. > > Theoretically could pull out the "standard" file open/close yadda > backend, reimplement it on top of the gio api instead, and then gio will > tell you when a volume has been unmounted, which gives some sort of > possibility to detect the situation and a basis for somehow propagating > it usefully to the top layers.
I do not know the gio api. But the issue I'm trying to address is just before, to inform the user just before about the filesystem a file is on is going to be unavailable. Another suggestion done here by someone else is to offer a message with all the apps and related files open by them still using the fs. Stef _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
