Re: How to detect insertion of USB drive on Solaris 10 box?

From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.unix.shell, comp.unix.questions, comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: How to detect insertion of USB drive on Solaris 10 box?
Date	2011-07-16 11:32 +1200
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On 07/16/11 10:42 AM, Saqib Ali wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm working on a SunOS  5.10 box.
> I'm inserting a USB flash-drive into the USB port.
>
> I would like to know how to detect the insertion of this device and
> how to mount it so that I can read/write to it.
>
> Could someone please advise?

Try com.unix.solaris.

> As a secondary task, I would like to do the above purely in C++
> without making any system calls. Any advice on that subject would also
> be appreciated.

You can't, unless you keep trying to open the device filesystem in a 
polling loop.

-- 
Ian Collins

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