Passing Information From HAL

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Thanh Tran <ttran7700 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would use HAL to pass information between my
>  application and a hot plug-in device.  I realize there
>  exists a library to help me write C code with this
>  functionality.  However, what I need to do is
>  relatively simple.  I want to detect a storage device
>  plugged in by a user and have my application read data
>  off of the device.  I used an .fdi policy file and a
>  bash script to start my app whenever a usb storage
>  device was plugged in.  However, I still need to
>  inform my application of the drive location.  I'm
>  assuming other policies will mount it auto for me.  I
>  just need to pass on the location to my app.  Any good
>  information or advice would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Use DBUS signal monitoring facilities instead of callouts. Callouts
are supposed to be used for scanning devices for additional HAL
properties.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution