I have nothing new to say, but I thought it was time to change
the subject line of this thread to make it more easily findable.
-- hendrik
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 08:33:46AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:07:42 +0200
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
> > Le 16/09/2020 à 22:30, Steve Litt a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:53:14 +0200
> > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@???> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 02:11:57 -0400
> > >> Steve Litt scripsit:
> > >>> In addition, I don't see why Unix design isn't a good fit for
> > >>> modern demands. Edward and Aitor have already made
> > >>> do-one-thing-and-do-it-well graphical automounters that, as far as
> > >>> I know, depend on neither systemd nor dbus. I once posted, on this
> > >>> list, a thumb drive plugin detector/mounter, and somebody else on
> > >>> the list improved on it.
> > >> Sorry, I must have missed that. Do you have a link to the software?
> > >>
> > >> nik
> > >
> > > No, sorry. Best way to find it is to search posts from Steve Litt
> > > body-containing the string "inotify". Once you've found the right
> > > one, look at that tree to find the improvement by the other DNG
> > > inhabitant, whose name I've forgotten.
> > >
> > > Please do me a favor if you find it, and repost it here. I
> > > apparently have lost the software (probably a small shellscript).
> >
> >
> > I wrote a graphical mounter which depends only on GTK+-2, and
> > Linux kernel version higher than 2.6.something - I don't rember at
> > the moment. It also depends, obviously, on the presence of a C
> > library. It's called "hopman" and was announced on this list. I found
> > a bug about 1 year ago: it happens to consume 100% of a cpu when a
> > loop device is created. I didn't take the time to debug it because I
> > feel tired - I'm 70 and have several few other concerns. I started to
> > internationalize it but didn't find a satisfactory way to manage the
> > internationalization files and integrate them to the build process.
> > For all these reasons, it hasn't been debianized.
> >
> > As it is, it is the only tool I use to mount USB sticks. It gives me
> > full satisfaction on everyday use, and I think this is the one Steve
> > uses.
> >
> > It is based on inotify watching /dev and /dev/disk/by-label, and a
> > custom recursive function designed to browse /sys.
> >
>
> I was given hopman to test on my Void box and got it compiled with some
> help from (I think) Aitor. It was much more mature than my amounter
> was. I don't know why I quit using it --- maybe my mind went on to
> other things.
>
> By the way, if you use amounter, change all the mount and unmount to
> pmount and pumount so it can be done by a normal user. I'm not going to
> have time to fix amounter's Git until late November.
>
> I think hopman is a package in Devuan, so everybody can use it.
>
> SteveT
>
>
> Steve Litt
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