I have nothing new to say, but I thought it was time to change the subject line of this thread to make it more easily findable.
-- hendrik On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 08:33:46AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:07:42 +0200 > Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > > > Le 16/09/2020 à 22:30, Steve Litt a écrit : > > > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:53:14 +0200 > > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <off...@klepp.biz> wrote: > > > > > >> Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 02:11:57 -0400 > > >> Steve Litt scripsit: > > >>> In addition, I don't see why Unix design isn't a good fit for > > >>> modern demands. Edward and Aitor have already made > > >>> do-one-thing-and-do-it-well graphical automounters that, as far as > > >>> I know, depend on neither systemd nor dbus. I once posted, on this > > >>> list, a thumb drive plugin detector/mounter, and somebody else on > > >>> the list improved on it. > > >> Sorry, I must have missed that. Do you have a link to the software? > > >> > > >> nik > > > > > > No, sorry. Best way to find it is to search posts from Steve Litt > > > body-containing the string "inotify". Once you've found the right > > > one, look at that tree to find the improvement by the other DNG > > > inhabitant, whose name I've forgotten. > > > > > > Please do me a favor if you find it, and repost it here. I > > > apparently have lost the software (probably a small shellscript). > > > > > > I wrote a graphical mounter which depends only on GTK+-2, and > > Linux kernel version higher than 2.6.something - I don't rember at > > the moment. It also depends, obviously, on the presence of a C > > library. It's called "hopman" and was announced on this list. I found > > a bug about 1 year ago: it happens to consume 100% of a cpu when a > > loop device is created. I didn't take the time to debug it because I > > feel tired - I'm 70 and have several few other concerns. I started to > > internationalize it but didn't find a satisfactory way to manage the > > internationalization files and integrate them to the build process. > > For all these reasons, it hasn't been debianized. > > > > As it is, it is the only tool I use to mount USB sticks. It gives me > > full satisfaction on everyday use, and I think this is the one Steve > > uses. > > > > It is based on inotify watching /dev and /dev/disk/by-label, and a > > custom recursive function designed to browse /sys. > > > > I was given hopman to test on my Void box and got it compiled with some > help from (I think) Aitor. It was much more mature than my amounter > was. I don't know why I quit using it --- maybe my mind went on to > other things. > > By the way, if you use amounter, change all the mount and unmount to > pmount and pumount so it can be done by a normal user. I'm not going to > have time to fix amounter's Git until late November. > > I think hopman is a package in Devuan, so everybody can use it. > > SteveT > > > Steve Litt > Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
