Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Can't Eject a Volume Date: 22 Feb 2014 17:01:01 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1lh9o11.jdr30za7497aN%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> <210220141307413164%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220220140029176881%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net UeoG7A10Cad7Y06Q7QouuwMugnferoxng99g17YgAgfCqjA8DK Cancel-Lock: sha1:jDlT7I9CUY0KTy3Jw87Cd3gyIT8= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:56828 On 2014-02-22, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2014.02.22, 10:02 , Alan Browne wrote: >> >> What I wrote was in reply your claim: >> "... very unlikely because files are written atomically." >> >> Some are. Some are not. lsof your system disk with some general apps >> open. Oops. Correction: many are not. > > Clarification: meant "many are not closed". And of all those that are left open, we have no idea which are or are not written atomically. That's the fact. Weasel boy wants us to ignore this fact. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR