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Steven Daedelus - 24 Aug 2005 00:13 GMT

Hi,

I've got a situation where my software needs to eject a CD even if there
is an open file on it. Is there any way to force all open files closed
and eject the CD?

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Ulrich Hobelmann - 24 Aug 2005 08:41 GMT

> Hi,
>
> I've got a situation where my software needs to eject a CD even if there
> is an open file on it. Is there any way to force all open files closed
> and eject the CD?

I think you can only kill the process that has the file open... Good
luck finding it.

Well-behaved processes should usually open, read and close files (same
for writing), the exception being programs like databases that need to
have a file opened all the time. In that case you don't want to eject
it under the program anyway.

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