Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:28:40 +0100 | From | David Balazic <> | Subject | Re: Annoying CD-rom driver error messages |
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LA Walsh (law@sgi.com) wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > support to function efficiently -- perhaps that technology needs to be further developed > > > on Linux so app writers don't also have to be kernel experts and experts in all the > > > various bus and device types out there? > > > > You mean someone should write a libcdrom that handles stuff like that - quite > > possibly > > --- > More generally -- if I want to know if a DVD has been inserted and of what type > and/or a floppy has been inserted or a removable media of type "X" or perhaps > more generally -- not just if a 'device' has changed but a file or directory? > I think that is what famd is supposed to do, but apparently it does so (I'm > guessing from the external description) by polling and says it needs kernel support > to be more efficient. Famd was apparently ported to Linux from Irix where it had > the kernel ability to be notified of changed file-space items (file-space = anything > accessible w/a pathname). > Now if I can just remember where I saw this mythical port of the 'file-access > monitoring daemon'....
This notification exists in 2.4.x ( at least the docs say so :-) see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt
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