HAL and CD monitoring

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 18:55, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > (it should be noted that hal can interoperate with existing volume
> > managers / automounters since the hal monitor parts looks for changes in
> > /etc/mtab).
> 
> 
> Hmm, are you only looking at that file? then you will not know when is
> inserted a new CD. Am I missing something?
> 

Mmm, only if it's mounted I see it there. The disc-change detection code
could go either in magicgdev, a volume manager / daemon or HAL itself.

Cheers,
David