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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Mark Hansen <cygwin@mehconsulting.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Does cygwin have an 'autorun' utility/package?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:37:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <887845943.20220126173758@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66df682d-2a2f-7429-39d9-f7b32a79c693@mehconsulting.com>

Greetings, Mark Hansen!

> 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.

Check out http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

This is no Cygwin app, but it's nonetheless a very powerful app that can deal
in various drive events.

> 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.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 17:37:09

Sorry for my terrible english...


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26 14:50 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
2022-01-16 17:59     ` Eliot Moss
2022-01-26 14:37 ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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