Ingolf Steinbach wrote:

> Is something similar possible in NetBSD 3.0.1, i386? (I.e.
> notification of a userland process that a new storage medium
> is available.) Maybe it is already supported by the KDE
> package for NetBSD?

I admit I did not research thoroughly before answering here, so I may be
mistaken, but I _think_ both GNOME and KDE adopted the "hal" idea from
freedesktop.org[1]. There is a need for a hal-backend specific to
NetBSD, just as people have started such a backend for OpenSolaris[2].

ciao
     Klaus


[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
[2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/hal_re.html