[Wolves] Using hardware events as software triggers

[Adam Sweet]

--- Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What I've been asked to do is to find out whether we
> can use hardware events such the connection of a usb
> card reader and the insertion of the media itself to
> trigger certain processes, such as:
> 
> On connection of reader, check for the media and if
> it
> is present, check for a filesystem, if there is one
> present, mount it and check for data, if not, access
> the device directly and check for data. In either
> case, if there is data on the media, do x, y and z
> with it.
> 
> I know that HAL, D-BUS and sysfs are used for this
> kind of thing but I'm not sure at which level of the
> stack to jump into.

Thanks to everyone who piped up on this but it looks
like I won't be doing it anymore. Good thing too as I
was a bit out of my depth.

Thanks anyway,

Ad

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