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Introduction

waitclose is a trivially simple program that is useful in scripts that need to wait for a user to insert cdroms. If the disc drive is empty it will eject it. If a disc is present it considers its work done. If the disc drive is open it will wait until it closes with a disc in it. Closing the tray without anything in it will cause it to be re-opened. For more info, run it with -h to see all the current command line options.

Comments are welcome. If you find something interesting to do with this code I'd like to hear about it. My email address is below.

USAGE

$ waitclose [-h] [-e] [device]

  e       :  Eject an empty tray (and continue doing so until a disc
             is inserted) This is the original 0.1 behavior.
  device  :  The device file of the cdrom drive.  Typical values include
             /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom2 /dev/hdc /dev/hdd.  The default is
             /dev/cdrom.
  h       :  Display help and exit.

TODO

• Add some command line parameters
• A man page

Changelog

version 0.3

• Put back the information code -d will display useful output
• -h should shows a synopsis
• reversed the order of the changelog version 0.2
• Optional eject behavior using code provided by Stephen Crane version 0.1
• First version

Authors

Caskey Dickson <caskey@techncoage.com> (Original program) Stephen Crane <jscrane@maths.tcd.ie> (getopt support,

                                           help, debug output at runtime
                                           optional eject behavior)