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How to detect USB drives that has been inserted/removed?

Oct 06, 2008  By nats
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Hi Everybody,

I am new to Linux. I have to write a C library which has to detect USB device such as Mass Storage devices that has been inserted/removed. And it has to notify to a Java application with Mass Storage Device's Label, Device ID. And as well as once it has been identified, it has to mount to a location and it has to send the mounted location to Java App.

I have tried using iNotify and by reading /proc/partitions. But i didnt succeed. Because iNotify is not giving notification for /proc/partitions as well as i m unable to read /proc/partitions through File IO in C.

Or Is there any built-in library which we can register for USB notification?

Please provide me suggestion to accomplish this task.

Thanks and Regards,
Nats.

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Check libusb

Mitch Frazier's picture
Submitted by Mitch Frazier on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 22:35.

Libusb is here:

libusb

Here's a Java interface to it:

libusb/Java

Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.

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