[PATCH] Get fstab information

Florent Mertens flomertens at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 06:40:21 PDT 2007


No strong objection against your objection, i feel pretty much the same,
but i thought that i might interest some people anyway.

Flo

Danny Kukawka a écrit :
> On Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007, Florent Mertens wrote:
>> This patch try to integrate fstab information into HAL.
>> For each volume, it set the following properties :
>>
>> linux.in_fstab (boolean)
>> linux.fstab.mountpoint (string)
>> linux.fstab.options (string)
>>
>> /etc/fstab is poll via hal-file-monitor so that we get up to date
>> information.
>>
>> This patch could make life of developers that try to create some kind of
>> disk manager utility, by giving reliable way to get fstab informations,
>> and notifications of change.
> 
> I don't see why we would need this in HAL. fstab is a config file which every 
> user can read IIRC and there are also already libraries which make it easy 
> for a delevoper to get the info from fstab. 
> 
> I would vote against adding this into HAL (HAL is about hardware and not about 
> config-file-parsing). 
> 
> Danny
> 
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