I'm using Linux Inotify to detect FS events on my program.
How could I be notified when a device is mounted on a monitored directory?
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A:
I don't think you can do it with inotify. Here is the method though:
- Read uevents from kernel via a Netlink socket and filter out those where
"ACTION"is not"mount". - Read and parse
"/proc/mounts"when you get an event with a"mount"action. - Find a record for a mount point with device that was just mounted and filter it out if it's not the directory you are watching.
Alex B
2009-07-11 09:57:28
The alternative is to put an `inotify` watch on `/etc/mtab`, and do the same kind of parsing as you would do on `/proc/mounts`. But this is much more fragile.
Michiel Buddingh'
2009-07-11 11:47:37
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A:
If you don't mind depending on fairly new libraries, you could use libudev for the first step.
Again, if you don't mind depending on new stuff and DBus, DeviceKit-Disks will do all of this for you, too. You'd hook into the DeviceChanged signal, and then look at the device-mount-paths property.
RAOF
2009-07-16 06:27:28