Re: fs information

[sms@sys.uea.ac.uk (Steve Sowerby)]

>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.

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.

Here's hoping...


Steve.




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Steve Sowerby, Ph.D. Student, Computational Geometry Project,
School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
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