Re: Need to write app for usb storage

[Magnus Therning <magnus therning org>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Chuck G. Smith<cgasmith comcast net> wrote:
>
> simple, any programming language you want just shell out and cat
> /proc/partitions and when it changes state, something has been inserted,
> make sure you stat for the files or directories when you  attempt to copy.
>  If this is greek to you., then perhaps you should consider a book or two on
> say python and python cookbook.

Wouldn't using udev or inotify be better way to do that, at least on
Linux?  Maybe there's even a Gnome abstraction providing x-platform
notifications for system changes that I don't know of.

/M

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