On Nov 5, 9:40 am, Paul Spaulding <[email protected]> wrote: > Using Node.js, how would I go about detecting when a USB storage device > (like a thumb-drive) is plugged into the host? Ideally, there would be an > event that I could listen for instead of polling. Assume a Linux OS, > although something that also works on Windows would be great. A pure > Node.js approach would be preferred, but I am not against leveraging other > tools if it makes the problem simpler. Thanks in advance.
You might try one of the dbus bindings [1] and listen for the DeviceAdded signal. [1] https://github.com/Motorola-Mobility/node-dbus https://github.com/Shouqun/node-dbus https://github.com/sidorares/node-dbus -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
