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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] automount, mount, and USB sticks
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 07:12:05AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Someone mentioned that we have too many daemons and this shouldn't be
> one. If you want the thing to be *auto*mount instead of just "mount
> when I tell you to, or "search for possible mounts and tell me about
> them", it has to be a background process having inotify or
> inotify-wait, and this would be started by the init program or process
> supervisor.    


I (I'm the rant author, if anyone remembers) would be completely
happy with these two non-auto mount commands. No need for a
long-running daemon. If you remember the rant, most of the automount
methods I've been treated to so far have done it wrong. I'd welcome
something more explicit.

-- hendrik