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- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 15:37:34 +0100
- To: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- From: sms@sys.uea.ac.uk (Steve Sowerby)
- Subject: Re: fs information
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- >Problem: for a library, I need a way to inquire the block device associated
- >with a certain filesystem. Example: input: u:\cdrom, output: u:\dev\scd5.
- >This is needed so that an application can have the user select a folder
- >and then access the (block device) audio commands of the associated
- >CD ROM drive.
- >
- >One solution would be to have a Dcntl opcode which returns just that.
- >In addition, it could/should return information similar to getmntent()
- >in SunOS (file system type and so on...). Besides, there should really
- >be a better way to get a list of mounted filesystems than reading the
- >entries from U:`s root.
- >
- I absolutely agree with this. I'm currently writing a replacement desktop
- where U: is the desktop and at the moment things are just a bit messy for
- my liking. I currently treat all folders in U: that aren't symlinks as
- drives and get the device number from an Fxattr call for future reference.
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- A clean way to get all 'real' filesystems (i.e. not psuedodrives) giving
- their device number, file system type and their root path would be great.
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- Here's hoping...
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- Steve.
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- Steve Sowerby, Ph.D. Student, Computational Geometry Project,
- School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
- EMAIL : sms@sys.uea.ac.uk
- POST:Steve Sowerby, P/G Student, SYS, UEA, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England
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