On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:08 AM, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Allen Curtis wrote: > >>> Another approach is to do the polling in userspace rather than in the >>> kernel. You could write a daemon that would constantly probe all the >>> removable SCSI disk drives. I don't know of any existing standalone >>> program to do that. >>> >> >> This is our current, inefficient method. We actually have a batch file > > You mean a shell script? Or a cron job? >
Yes, a shell script. >> which sits around in a polling loop trying to mount or unmount the >> device depending on the current state. >> >> It does work but it isn't very efficient. > > Not efficient in what sense? Uses too much memory? Too much system > overhead? Too slow to respond? > > By many metrics (though not all!) C programs are more efficient than > shell > scripts. > >> We actually did it this way >> as a "quick fix". I guess we stumbled onto the right solution? > > The right sort of solution, anyway. > Perhaps a supported solution. This does seem like a reasonable request. - Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
