On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 03:53:52PM -0700, Andy Chen wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > Thanks for the advice. > > For the mechanism you mentioned, does it mean that I should create a > daemon with libudev to keep on tracking the event coming out and > bringing the gui window from there? Yes. > Is it the method employed in current kernel for the file explore auto > pop up when usb hard drive plug in? The kernel does no such thing, that is up to the desktop infrastructure. I think Gnome uses HAL and dbus to do this currently, KDE uses much the same thing as well. I suggest you go look at their code if you have questions. good luck, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html