On 27 Feb 2014, at 10:19 am, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote:

> Is there an NSNotification or some other kind of notification you can 
> subscribe to when there's a change in /dev? I'm dealing with an old 
> USB-serial device which creates a cu/tty when inserted (and removed when 
> removed)  and I'd like to get a notification when that happens so I can 
> update UI. 
> 
> I've hunted around the docs but clearly haven't found the right one yet. I 
> wish there were a master list of all system notifications somewhere, would be 
> handy to find them, or rule out that they exist. 


I don't think there is, but you could use fsevents to watch that directory.

Arduino? I notice that the Arduino IDE notices the addition of cu/tty in /dev 
when you plug in a board, but then again it only displays that in a menu, so it 
might just do a scan when it updates its menus.

--Graham



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