site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Philip, On Apr 19, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Philip Aker wrote: HTH, --gc ____________________________________________________________________ Garth Cummings gcummings@apple.com Sr. Software Engineer Apple Developer Technical Support <http://developer.apple.com/technicalsupport> WWDC 2008 • June 9-13 • Moscone West • San Francisco, CA <http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I know I can use volume events in Carbon for disk insertion and eject but had hoped to keep things at the same level and eventually move this background app down to a CFRunLoop tool. DiskArbitration is the way to handle disk events at the CoreServices or UNIX layers. It's somewhat light in the documentation department but the headers in DiskArbitration.framework should get you going. The framework is also open source. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com