[maemo-developers] Not receiving pre-unmounts

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:59 -0300, ext Leonardo Sobral wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I am currently working on a cache system that may need to keep file
> descriptors open in the mmc and I am trying to get notified if the mmc
> is in an attempt to be removed.
> 
> I am listening for (pre) unmounts signals (N800 with latest firmware),
> but I just receive unmount when I open the mmc case and nobody is
> using it, otherwise I don't receive any signals and a pop-up appears
> for the user, informing that "Memory Card in use ... Removing card may
> damage data ..." (I do receive a remove signal when the card is
> removed).
> 
> Shouldn't applications always be notified, via pre-unmounts, when the
> mmc case is opened in order to free the resources?

The signal should come. The Ke-recv process runs the mmc-pre-unmount
program to send the signal before trying to unmount a memory card.

You should see the signal in the output of "dbus-monitor --session".

BR; Kimmo
> 
> BR
> ------
> // leo
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