Re: Facing the End ;-)

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
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> > That way, we wouldn't have to care (almost) anywhere else in the 
> > kernel, and still provide notifications for higher levels.
> > The daemon would iterate over all mounted devices (using next=3D
> > 5Fdev()) 
> > and asks them if they had any media changes. Perhaps we can even 
> > have a more optimized internal API for that purpose.
> It should not only iterate over mounted devices. All devices are of 
> interest. E.g. if you insert a CD, there should be a notification, so 
> that the Tracker can decide whether or not to mount it.

Oh, yes, you are absolutely right, I forgot about those.
It must iterate over all "raw" devices in /dev/disk and ask those for 
news...

Adios...
   Axel.