On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:07:12AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hi! > > Paul Hampson [2004-11-11 10:03 +1100]: > > But don't CD-ROM and floppy devices also need the same sort of pmount > > support you're proposing here? After all, you can hot-swap the media in > > them, so it seems reasonable to me that they can be pmounted? What's the > > rationale for _not_ including these in the pmount infrastructure you're > > proposing? > CD-ROMs are fully supported by pmount; hal runs in both floppy and > cdrom group as well, so that media check and file system detection > works. > The only problem are floppies, because there is no sysfs entry for the > floppy device. That means that pmount cannot currently decide that > /dev/fd0 is removable and will refuse to mount it. However, this is > not a big practical problem since legacy floppies are usually present > in /etc/fstab. If a device is already in fstab, pmount <device> > behaves _exactly_ like mount <device>. This fallback allows to use > pmount as a complete replacement of mount in e. g. > gnome-volume-manager. > Maybe there is a misunderstanding here: pmount itself does not care > about the group of a device. pmount decides whether or not the user is > allowed to mount a device by looking at sysfs, not at device > permissions. Ah, thankyou. I did indeed have it ass-backwards. >_< _That_ way 'round, I like it. ^_^ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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