# Emmanuel Dreyfus 2006-10-16:
> Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > AmigaOS (the DOS part) used to:
> > 
> > - remind you to insert a volume into any drive when you accessed it for
> >   reading/writing and it wasn't available
> > 
> > - remind you to insert a volume INTO (the) DRIVE ${where it was before,}
> >   (dammit, right now!) if some metadata weren't written yet when you removed
> >   it.
> 
> MacOS did that too, but how does that fit with Unix non interractive
> processes?

Send the event from kernel down a character device/socket, have an X
application read it and paint the window (or a deamon run a script)? :-)

	-- Jachym