"...disk is in use" But by what process??

[Charles Martin]

> From: Jerry Krinock <dearjerry at mindspring.com>
>
> on 03/05/20 06:46, James S Jones at jsjones at mac.com wrote:
>
>> The solution is to close
> [you mean "quit".  This is Apple country. ]
>> the application that was launched by opening a
>> file on the disk (that refuses to be ejected). Quit Acrobat Reader,
>> etc, and the disk is no longer in use. If the reader app had already
>> been running when the file on the disk was opened, you will not have
>> this problem.
>
> This is interesting, James.  I think I have may have seen this 
> behavior,
> which I would describe as a bug in the OS.

While I might agree with you that this can be annoying flaw in the 
design, it's NOT a bug.

The definition of a bug is some UNEXPECTED happening. This was a 
behaviour that was deliberately designed into the OS for stability 
purposes. Thus, it cannot be a bug.

_Chas_

"That the PC world would doggedly stick to a dull, unimaginative, 
clinical term like 'IEEE 1394' (notice how it just rolls off the tongue 
- NOT) for the sole purpose of *saving a few pennies* over using an 
imaginative, exciting, visually-stimulating term like 'FireWire' tells 
you EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW about the PC world and that whole 
industry-wide mindset." - Me, March 2003