Patch to xfce-utils/scripts/xfmountdev4

Benedikt Meurer Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Feb 26 13:14:37 CET 2003


On Wed, 26, Feb 2003, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> On Tue, 25, Feb 2003, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 
> > > I prepared a patch to get xfmountdev4 working on Net/OpenBSD. Perhaps the
> > > xfmountdev4 script should be rewritten to be a C program instead of a
> > > shell script, cause the various semantics for eject(1) and friends
> > > differ a lot from platform to platform, whereas the system interface
> > > (the ioctl's for removeable media) doesn't differ that much.
> > > 
> > > Opinions?
> > 
> > If you contribute the source C for ioctl's I'll make sure they end up in
> > the forthcoming mount/umount  stuff for xffm. I have no idea how the
> > ioctl's should be dealt with.
> 
> Ok, I'll try to.

I forgot to mentoin, that this would require xfmountdev4 and probably xffm
to be installed setuid to root, don't know whether this is a good idea.

regards,
Benedikt

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