[PATCH] Get fstab information

Alf mel alf at mypals.org
Fri Oct 26 07:33:04 PDT 2007


On Friday 26 October 2007 06:03:14 am Danny Kukawka wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  Being more a distribution developer than a Unix programmer, fstab 
doesn't change often to merit constant monitoring (at least in my systems).

-- 
@ - Alf


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