Re: Identifying drives/volumes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 12:44 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For the GtkFileChooser's extension mechanism, I need to be able to
> identify drives/volumes through a URI.  Are these guaranteed to refer
> uniquely to the corresponding drive/volume?
> 
> 	gnome_vfs_drive_get_activation_uri()
> 	gnome_vfs_volume_get_activation_uri()
> 
> Background:  a file chooser extension is an implementation of the
> abstract interface GtkFileChooserExtensionIface.  This has a virtual
> method called "is_volume_visible", which is used to implement lock-down:
> 
> 	gboolean (* is_volume_visible) (GtkFileChooserExtension *extension,
> 					const char              *base_uri);
> 
> This base_uri is the URI that you would use to get to the root of a
> volume.  The idea is that every time the file chooser needs to display
> or enter a volume, it first asks the lock-down extension whether that
> volume should be visible to the user.
> 
> So, I need to know if the activation_uri for a drive/volume is what I
> need.  I don't want to expose the opaque GtkFileSystemVolume to
> extensions.

There is no such guarantee. You can easily connect to server the same
uri twice.

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