Re: Some general facts about panel and gnome

[Aidan Skinner <aidan skinner demon co uk>]

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On 18 Jan 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Do file URLs contain the hostname? The problem I'm talking about is
> when a person has a home directory shared between two machines but
> mounted in different places on each, etc.

This could be checked via /etc/fstab (possibly falling back to the df
command if that doesn't work) to get the physical device, at least for
the common cases of nfs/smb mounted drives.

It's low level, and a bit icky, but what you're trying to do is hide
this low level stuff from the user so sie doesn't have to worry about
it. It's a war, gentlemen, and sometimes people get hurt[1].

- - Aidan

[1] Or parse hardware configuration files.

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