Re: Adding new functionality to the VFS

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

Le lundi 08 août 2005 à 18:45 +0300, Yaron Tausky a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I started hacking a bit on integrating PDAs into GNOME, and I
> noticed that the VFS has three of connections it recognizes: drives,
> volumes and servers. Drives and volumes are detected by fstab/mtab
> monitoring, while servers can be connected by any proccess invoking the
> gnome_vfs_connect_to_server API function.
> This leaves other types of devices neglected: in this case, a PDA is not
> a volume but nor is it a server (even though you use a serial connection
> to communicate with it). Is there any solution currently? If not,
> perhaps we should add a new API for devices...
> I though I'd better ask on the list first. :-)

Hi,

I'm unsure what problem you are trying to solve here. Is that about
pluggable devices which can't be mounted using mount(8) because they
aren't seen by the computer as an USB Mass Storage device or something
similar?

Christophe