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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:45:39 -0700
From:      Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Detect floppy diskette
Message-ID:  <20030826214539.GB3912@webserver>
In-Reply-To: <002b01c36c0f$6b55cc00$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <002a01c36c0c$af801500$04fea8c0@moe> <002b01c36c0f$6b55cc00$04fea8c0@moe>

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:19:57PM -0500 or thereabouts, Charles Howse wrote:
> > > Try this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use POSIX qw/:fcntl_h dup2 setsid/;
> if (fork) { exit; }
> setsid;
>  
> my $fd = POSIX::open "/dev/null", O_WRONLY or die "Can't open 
> /dev/null: $!\n";
> dup2 $fd, 0;
> dup2 $fd, 1;
> dup2 $fd, 2;
> 
> sleep 5;
>  
> system "sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt";
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong, all this script does is run and exit
> with status 0, whether I have a diskette in the drive or not.  No output
> to screen or anything.

Does nothing happen for 5 seconds?
Good! That means you can trap the error. (Read my previous email).

> 
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