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?

-lava

IS> > poll by trying to read form the device periodically
IS> > but that would be inefficient.
IS>
IS> The kernel would have to do this, too. So yes, polling every - say -
IS> 3 seconds sounds like you want to do.
IS>
IS> Regards,
IS> 	-is
IS>

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