2.4.1p8:don't "mount" audio CDs

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 09:25:24AM +0000, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>
> It seems that if you (accidentally) do:
>
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom  (with an audio CD in the tray)
>
> (because it happens to be in your command history & you forgot ;)
>
> it completely locks up the kernel.
>
> no oops, no SysRq, no <option> power, no switch console - three keys is the
> only way out.
>
> (so not much useful info really) more of a "don't do that"... although it
> seems a bit drastic for such an easy mistake.
>
> Iain.

I managed to do this with a debian-woody cd, of all things..
no chance to debug it yet.. :-/

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