Tango FileRoots

[Jesse Phillips]

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:02:33 -0500, Ty Tower wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:
> 
>> Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm interested in knowing why FileRoots.list() uses /etc/mtab for its
>> > root folders in linux? To my knowledge Linux only has one root and if
>> > anything its sub directories would be considered the roots. I just
>> > don't see the point of using mtab, but then again I'm looking at it
>> > from how file managers look at the system.
>> 
>> The unix root / isn't the most useful thing to ask for, thus mtab is
>> used to show all mounted devices.
>> 
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>> Lars Ivar Igesund
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> 
> ftab mounts the original devices and empowers them mtab looks after the
> devices added later ie plugging in the usb stick or something like that
> 
> is the  file used in that sort of context?

it can't, it reads the file when called, so it will only get already 
mounted devices, a file change listener of some sort would have to be 
created to track later mounted devices.

For me must of the mounted items in mtab are useless, but it can be 
easily version'd out as needed.