INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for enabling each application to independently mount/unmount an external storage device without needing an explicit unmounting instruction from a user. SOLUTION: The information processing appar...

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1. Verfasser: HAMAZAKI NARUSHIGE
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing method for enabling each application to independently mount/unmount an external storage device without needing an explicit unmounting instruction from a user. SOLUTION: The information processing apparatus including a removable external storage device and mounted with an operating system that performs the mounting and the unmounting of the external storage device and a plurality of application programs each configured to independently access the external storage device is provided with an external-storage-device monitoring means that instructs the operating system, in response to a request for mounting or unmounting the external storage device, which is output from each of the application programs, to perform the mounting and the unmounting of the external storage device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT