Re: autofs and nautilus

[Ian Kent <raven themaw net>]

On 2 Sep 2003, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> There are some different pieces of code involved.
> 
> The core part of nautilus that tracks mounts and removable volumes is
> the NautilusVolumeMonitor. The code for this beast (its pretty horrible
> unfortunately) is in libnautilus-private/nautilus-volume-monitor.c.
> Basically its a singleton object that emits signals when volumes are
> mounted/unmounted and the list of removable devices change.
> 
> The Nautilus part of trash directories are handles by
> libnautilus-private/nautilus-trash-monitor.c and
> libnautilus-private/nautilus-trash-directory.c, but the actual searching
> for trash directories is handled by gnome-vfs in
> gnome-vfs/modules/file-method.c::find_trash_directory().
> 
> However, looking at the code it seems like scanning for trash
> directories only happen when something actively uses the trash.
> 
> I think your problems might just be related to how
> nautilus-volume-monitor.c behaves. There is some autofs magic in
> mount_volume_nfs_add(), but I really don't know this code all that well,
> so i can't tell you what its meant to do.
> 

Thanks for this.

I'll have a look and see what I can come up with.

I have several things going at the moment so I'm not likely to spend much 
time on it till the weekend.

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