On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 17:56 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This whole discussion (this evenings) is centered around how Andy > > is bypassing HAL and *what* process is communicating to *what* > > userspace application to do the auto-mounting. > > 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.
gnome-vfs reads /etc/fstab (and mtab) and monitors it with inotify/FAM, that's right. gnome-vfs was never responsible for automatically mounting volumes, though, that's what gnome-volume-manager has been written for. gnome-vfs just provides information so that e.g. nautilus can display appropriate drive/disc icons on the desktop/in "computer". Jürg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
