On Fre, 2006-04-07 at 17:22 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 00:14 +0200, Jürg Billeter wrote: > > > It's the other way round. udev notifies HAL of new devices, older HAL > > versions call fstab-sync to create fstab entries on demand and > > the /etc/fstab change gets noticed by FAM which notifies gnome-vfs. > > I understand everything you're saying. However, Andy says this all > works without D-Bus/HAL installed.
I thought he just didn't compile gnome-vfs with HAL support, that's indeed not necessary for automounting. As previously written, gnome-volume-manager is the gnome automounter, not gnome-vfs, and gnome-volume-manager has an unconditional dependency on HAL. > > I believe I've the concept down. I think it is inotify that is > responding to the Udev event and notifying userspace applications. > So indeed if this is how it's done, you wouldn't need DBUS/HAL to > simply mount plug-in media. inotify doesn't have anything to do with udev. This notification wouldn't even be possible as inotify events originate from the kernel and the kernel doesn't know anything about udev. Jürg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
