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Bug 606058 - Only keep device open when using it
Only keep device open when using it
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 610261
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: gphoto backend
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-04 22:38 UTC by David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail)
Modified: 2014-04-05 19:57 UTC
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Description David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2010-01-04 22:38:07 UTC 
It might be nice to only keep the device open when actually doing IO. From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551300#c6

If we did this, then all the problems with other user space apps (e.g. rhythmbox, gthumb, f-spot) trying to access the device (instead of e.g. using GIO or the FUSE mount at ~/.gvfs) would probably go away 99.9% of the time.

I'm not sure how hard this is to do or how it would work with libgphoto2. But it's worth investigating.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2010-01-18 11:20:28 UTC 
It's a nice idea to allow those to also be opened from kernel-space (for when devices support being used as webcams), but it would be a big hack for when apps use libgphoto or libmtp directly, and I would expect things blowing up in our faces in those cases, unless we could make it visible to the users that things wouldn't work as expected.
Comment 2 Felix Möller 2012-08-02 08:55:50 UTC 
I guess this might be a duplicate of bug #610261.
Comment 3 Ross Lagerwall 2014-04-05 19:57:20 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 610261 ***