Hello, Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) the mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm looking for a level of detail like this:
When you insert a USB device, the kernel sends out a notification A. Userland daemons such as B can catch this signal. A file B.conf describes what to do in response to a certain class of USB devices and in there you will see a section for disk drives that says mount them at location C. Then B sends out a notification D which window managers can catch if they want. GNOME and others catch D and in response put an icon on the desktop. The reason lowly users can mount and write to these devices is E. PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug session pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the variables in my pseudo-description above. Thank you, Chris
