On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 14:41 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Surely FreeBSD must have something that enumerates the mounted file
> > systems? At least the kernel knows (on Linux this is in /proc/mounts and
> > the format is similar to /etc/mtab).
>
> We do, but it's not a file. It's an API call, getmntinfo(). Since you
> can't add a monitor to this, I thought polling would be the way to go.
> That is, on platforms without mtab, check the list of mounts every few
> seconds, and fire signals if the list changes. The gio API already
> knows how to enumerate mounts on FreeBSD. It just needs to do this
> periodically to look for changes.
Yeah, sounds good to me. Not that polling is good or anything but if
it's all you have it's what you gotta do.
David
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