[Development] moving some SystemInfo stuff into qtbase (was Re: QtDriveInfo module in Playground)

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I think, "mount" requires root privileges, doesn't it?

Not sure about libudev, maybe it can be used from userspace...

Иван Комиссаров

> 13 янв. 2014 г., в 22:17, David Faure <david.faure at kdab.com> написал(а):
> 
> On Monday 13 January 2014 18:04:24 Tony Van Eerd wrote:
>>> 1) well, it can go to qt base, but what module? We can't add mount and
>>> monitor to qtcore, because Linux implementation will require dbus.
>> 
>> I'm not familiar with the details there, can you briefly explain why dbus is
>> necessary and why it is a bad thing for qtcore?
> 
> QtCore can't link to QtDBus, since QtDBus links to QtCore.
> 
> Mounting can still be done with `mount`, no?
> Notifications mean listening to dbus signals though, indeed. Tricky.
> Maybe by using libdbus directly, but this contradicts the long term plan of 
> not using libdbus in QtDBus (AFAIK).
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