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From: Mark Hansen <cygwin@mehconsulting.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Does cygwin have an 'autorun' utility/package?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 08:35:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <056dd5de-878e-b04f-6717-c9506701e797@mehconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220116161249.tvizujlenvqkdyyp@lucy.dinwoodie.org>

On 1/16/2022 8:12 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 06:46:06AM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote:
>> I have an application running under Linux which I would like to move to Windows
>> (with Cygwin). This application depends on getting notifications when a CD Rom
>> drive status has changed (like audio CD inserted, ejected, etc.). For this, I
>> use a Linux utility application named 'autorun':
>> 
>> https://linux.die.net/man/1/autorun
>> 
>> What's nice about this application is it can be configured to send notifications when
>> various drive events occur.
>> 
>> I've looked through the package list for Cygwin and don't see anything like this.
>> 
>> Does Cygwin have anything that could work?
>> 
>> My Windows/C skills are about 20 years old so I was hoping to find an existing utility
>> application that can provide this functionality, rather than try write my own.
> 
> I don't think Cygwin has anything of this ilk. It's the sort of function
> that inherently requires some integration with the underlying operating
> system in ways that the Cygwin compatibility layer makes difficult:
> a tool providing that sort of function on Cygwin would need to both
> interface with the underlying Windows OS to get notifications of CD
> drive events, then provide some sort of *nix-style interface for Cygwin
> applications to attach to.
> 
> Depending on precisely what you need, you might be able to automate
> things with a simple Bash/Python/whatever script.  Something like the
> following would let you run a specific program when a CD is inserted
> into drive D:, for example:
> 
>      #!/usr/bin/env bash
>      set -eu
>      while :; do
>          if [[ -e /cygdrive/d ]]; then
>              echo "CD detected, running '$PROGRAM'"
>              cygstart "$PROGRAM"
>          else
>              echo 'No CD detected'
>          fi
>          sleep 60
>      done
> 
> HTH
> 
> Adam
> 

Thanks. I need to know specifically when an Audio CD is inserted. I guess I'll keep
looking. Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-16 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-16 14:46 Mark Hansen
2022-01-16 16:12 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2022-01-16 16:35   ` Mark Hansen [this message]
2022-01-16 17:59     ` Eliot Moss
2022-01-26 14:37 ` Andrey Repin

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