Re: [Nautilus-list] nautilus always stat64() /etc/mtab

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 27Nov2001 03:15PM (-0500), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> "Eric Wood" <eric interplas com> writes:
> > nautilus wants to constantly monitor /etc/mtab to see if something
> > automount.  However this function keeps the hard drives spinning, battery
> > life low, and ext3 continually flushing the journals.
> > 
> > Stephen Tweddie (author of ext3) says to use some other function (I don't
> > know what it is) that does the same thing as stat64() but lets the drives
> > spin down when not really used.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> My memory of what Stephen said is that Nautilus should hold mtab open
> instead of opening/closing it over and over. I'm not sure I remember
> correctly though.
 
I hate to do this by guessing. Does anyone know where I could find a
list of which system calls update atime and which don't?

 - Maciej