how to notify an application when a usb flash drive gets connected..

**sunil.thaha** · 2nd December 2006, 04:31

As an alternative you could try to monitor the file system (either /etc/fstab or /mnt/something) if you are sure that the device will be automounted in a particular location but this method might fail, so using HAL is a preffered solution.

How about /proc ?

**wysota** · 2nd December 2006, 08:11

Originally Posted by sunil.thaha

How about /proc ?

What about it?

**jacek** · 2nd December 2006, 14:14

Originally Posted by sunil.thaha

How about /proc ?

Yes, but not every system allows normal users to dig inside it. A similar solution is to use libusb and look from time to time for new devices.

**Brandybuck** · 2nd December 2006, 19:41

Originally Posted by sunil.thaha

How about /proc ?

The problem with /proc is that Linux treats it entirely different than do other Unix and Unix-like systems. Basing an application on Linux's procfs behavior means that it won't work under BSD, Solaris, etc. I would look for a better crossplatform approach.

**wysota** · 2nd December 2006, 20:12

Furthermore /proc under Linux starts to be deprecated in favour of /sys so there is a probability that /proc (or at least most of its functionality) will soon vanish from some Linux distros.