[sugar] activity's access to usb and sd card paths?

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Tue Dec 11 15:30:43 EST 2007


Erik,

On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 01:06:58PM -0500, Erik Blankinship wrote:
> I would like to provide the option to save large media files to external
> storage devices.

Excellent.

> Is there any security or rainbow restriction from writing to
> /media/connectedDevice?  

When activity permissions info becomes required, there will be a flag
that grants access to removable mass-storage devices (or maybe just to
the USB/SD devices? not sure). At that time, you'll need to specify this
flag in order to keep your feature working, however, this is a
post-Update.1 feature.

> Is there a better path to use than that?

You might be able to get a better path from HAL.

> Is there anything activity authors should consider about how the Journal
> treats these media?

Mainly to be aware that the current DS implementation copies data
to-and-from the removable media. [I think.]

Michael

P.S. - Apologies for the belated response.



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