On Sat 01 Feb 2020 at 13:38:55 (-0500), songbird wrote: > Reco wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 12:36:28PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> the directory is a mount point of a device in limbo. > >> it is showing up as mounted but it really isn't (the > >> device is turned off). > > ... > >> > >> i just want the answer to be 0 or the number of files. > > > > Fuse does not work that way. If a userspace backend cannot perform its > > function (in this case - a device is disconnected) - it's free to return > > all kinds of error even on a simple opendir(3). > > > > Best you can do is to execute: > > > > fusermount -u /home/me/pics/camera > > i don't care if it is returned, i just wonder why it isn't > redirected to /dev/null like i'm asking it to do. > > > >> i am using the above in a bash script so i don't want > >> any error messages coming from the script itself unless > >> i print them myself. > > > > If you need an answer whenever a camera is plugged on or not - why don't > > you check for the device itself? I.e. lsusb and friends. > > i check via the mount command but as i've found out it > isn't really reliable because in fact it is mounting something > even if it isn't there. > > as it is i have to tell the camera to be unmounted via gio > because when i plug the camera in the automounting happens > even if i tell the system to not do anything. > > and yes, i'm annoyed at systems that don't do what you tell > them to do. the reason i'm writing this whole thing is because > i dislike all the stupid assumptions and baked in crap that > the camera manufacturer wants someone to jump through. no. the > USB connection works as it should, leave me alone. grrr! > > so i almost have my camera script done but there's these > last niggling bits i'd like to iron out. > > thanks for the suggestion about lsusb. that will at least > get around the main PITA i'm hitting. :)
My question would be: Which directory is your current directory—what does pwd say? After all, the error messages say "reading directory '.': Protocol error", and not knowing where you are is unsettling for any command. Cheers, David.
