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From: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: CD drive media event
Reply-To: Rasputin <rasputin@idoru.mine.nu>

* Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> [020813 10:47]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 07:37:16PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 @ 2:27pm (+0200), Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > 
> > IS> Hello,
> > IS>
> > IS> On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 02:34:37AM -0700, Girish Wadhwani wrote:
> > IS>
> > IS> > Is there any mechanism for a process to be notified
> > IS> > when media is inserted into a cd drive on NetBSD?
> > IS> > Ideally, I would like to have a deamon sleeping and
> > IS> > when media is insert, the kernel would notify the
> > IS> > process. The other option would be for the process to
> > 
> > ...you mean vold or automountd from some commercial unix's?
> 
> err, vold. Automountd is sort of the reverse function - try to mount a known
> volume when it is accessed, while vold tries to mount whatever is inserted
> into a changable media drive, shortly after it is inserted.

Isn't the distinction a bit like
'if a tree falls in a forest and there's no-one to hear it...'?

There was aDaemonnews article related to using amd to auto-mount CDs, it's
at:

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200202/automounting.html

configuration was a little cumbersome, but the basic idea was sound...


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