Tango FileRoots

[Kris]

Jesse,

Would you mind jumping on irc to discuss this one, please? There's an easy 
way to hookup irc noted at the bottom of this page: 
http://dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/Contact

Thanks;


"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund
>>> blog at http://larsivi.net
>>> DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi
>>> Dancing the Tango
>>
>> 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.