CD creation/burning: [MacPorts] #46840: new port submission: xcdroast

[Ned Deily]

In article <1815194.9uG6SLK7dp at portia.local>,
 Rene J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I'm aware of those settings; they have been in existence for as long as 
> I can remember. There's no option however to ignore data CDs or DVDs, and I'm 
> not sure if ignoring the injection of a music CD (i.e. not launch an app) 
> will prevent it from being mounted by the Finder, which prevents access by 
> other applications. One can unmount it (=/= eject), but it will be remounted 
> as soon as you access the drive. Apparently that still generates events that 
> the Finder reacts to. 

You may be able to prevent automounting of optical media by adding 
appropriate entries in /etc/fstab; that certainly worked for disk 
partitions in older versions of OS X (I haven't tried it recently).  
Even if does get automounted, you should be able to use the various 
options in hdiutil to unmount and/or attach the device without mounting 
file systems and/or making the mounts visible to the Finder.  hdiutil 
has a boatload of options.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org