-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/13 20:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hello, > > Would you please explain (or refer me to a place that explains) > the mechanism by which an USB drive appears on my desktop? I'm > looking for a level of detail like this: > > When you insert a USB device, the kernel sends out a notification > A. Userland daemons such as B can catch this signal. A file > B.conf describes what to do in response to a certain class of USB > devices and in there you will see a section for disk drives that > says mount them at location C. Then B sends out a notification D > which window managers can catch if they want. GNOME and others > catch D and in response put an icon on the desktop. The reason > lowly users can mount and write to these devices is E. > > PS: These topics are a blur in my mind: udev hotplug coldplug > session pam. I suspect these words are used to fill in some of the > variables in my pseudo-description above.
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