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On 10/06/13 20:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) |
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> the mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm |
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> looking for a level of detail like this: |
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> When you insert a USB device, the kernel sends out a notification |
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> A. Userland daemons such as B can catch this signal. A file |
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> B.conf describes what to do in response to a certain class of USB |
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> devices and in there you will see a section for disk drives that |
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> says mount them at location C. Then B sends out a notification D |
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> which window managers can catch if they want. GNOME and others |
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> catch D and in response put an icon on the desktop. The reason |
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> lowly users can mount and write to these devices is E. |
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> PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug |
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> session pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the |
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> variables in my pseudo-description above. |
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Udev rules? |
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