Randy McMurchy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:56 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> I don't want to spread FUD, but this is what I *think* gnome-vfs does >> in the absence of HAL. I think this because it was making my CDROMs >> available through nautilus before I was using HAL. I think that it >> reads in /etc/fstab and monitors those devices and directories for >> drives and volumes. I know there are parts of the code that read >> fstab, and there are definitely parts of the code that monitor volumes >> and drives. And it isn't all dependent on HAL. Only certain parts of >> the code are wrapped in #ifdef USE_HAL statements. Just a guess, >> though. > > I appreciate your conjecture and speculation. It provides data for > folks to think about and you may be right on the button. > > Please now explain how you think that music CDs are autoplayed in the > absence of dbus/hal. This is something that monitoring fstab, volumes, > directories and whatnot cannot really detect.
For one thing, automount has been around far longer than dbus or hal. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
