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Re: Changed getmntent behavior
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:49:12PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>I don't think it is possible to detect if a drive has medium without
>>pausing. Do you know of an Windows function which checks for this?
>
>Not off the top of my head. DJGPP does it, but we put a lot of effort
>into getting it right. DOS offers little help ;)
Deja.com seems to indicate that it isn't possible with a floppy without trying
to do a seek. I don't think I want to slow down every mount, so I've removed
floppies from consideration.
I also removed CD-ROMs with no media from consideration. If there is media in
the drive then it is reported.
cgf