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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] USB mount problem
Le 23/06/2021 à 12:49, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp a écrit :
> Anno domini 2021 Wed, 23 Jun 12:16:50 +0200
> Didier Kryn scripsit:
>> [...]
>>     There is no other way to know which partitions are mounted or not
>> than read /proc/self/mounts. inotify does not work on pseudo-filesystems
>> like /sys or /proc. Therefore, either this is done by the front-end or
>> by the back-end.
> Oh, inotifywatch perfectly works on /sys and /dev when you are root, in fact that's what I use as part of my automounter when I run fvwm:


    Of course it works on /dev; tmpfs and devtmpfs behave like real
filesystems. This is what Hopman is based on (~:

    Hopman isn't root, doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be. And inotify
doesn't work on /proc (at least for non-root).

--     Didier