From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7yb9-0001WH-P8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:31:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC5DBE0BA0; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC8BE0849 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:29:33 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE+4rw20/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBJROhkuECQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="168048881" Received: from 184-175-13-180.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.13.180]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2012 20:29:31 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:29:00 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:29:00 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-( Message-ID: <20120315002900.GB32691@waltdnes.org> References: <20120312092432.GA2959@acm.acm> <20120313073306.GC23544@waltdnes.org> <20120313130534.GB3457@acm.acm> <20120313190052.GA2430@waltdnes.org> <20120313194727.GB2536@acm.acm> <20120313210737.GD2536@acm.acm> <20120313213330.78c5ebf7@digimed.co.uk> <20120313222019.GE2536@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ffec5509-30b7-4256-8fd9-2e0ac035f71d X-Archives-Hash: 80bfb3994fa4cf02804a88218c4b5351 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 05:56:34PM +0000, Stroller wrote > I'm assuming, then, that you're happy opening a terminal and typing > `mkdir /mnt/diskname` and mounting the device every time you plug a > new disk in? Wouldn't it just be nice to plug in your USB devices - > hard-drives and flash drives - and have them magically appear on > the desktop like they do on every other desktop operating system? ...and auto-execute an INI file that loads a virus, or Sony rootkit? No thanks. BTW, even with mdev, a bunch of stuff gets spit out to /var/log/messages. The last line was... Mar 14 20:17:42 localhost kernel: [512417.398747] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk This is probably what userspace automounters work with (directly or indirectly). -- Walter Dnes