On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:42 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote:
Greetings,
I am attempting to find how to get notified about CD/DVD media
availability in non-desktop circumstances, e.g. an operator walks to a
server and inserts a blank DVD which then becomes a candidate for backups.
My guess is that I should look at either HAL or D-BUS, but I would like
to hear about the pros and cons of each solution: as far as I know, HAL
feeds D-BUS but the latter is mainly intended for desktop applications,
so in my use case might not even be there. I could poll the device once
a minute, but I would hate to do so.
Thank your for your consideration,
Davide Bolcioni
D-BUS is for use from (right above) the kernel up to the Desktop. You
can use it for system services also. It is why we have a system bus in
the first place.
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John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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