RFC: Adding a ``user'' mount option

[Artem Ignatiev]

On 08.04.2006, at 5:04, Jeremy Baggs wrote:

> I suppose it would be nice to have something that works "out of the  
> box", but the solution I have been using
> is group permissions on the devices and then making the mount point  
> in fstab relative instead of absolute. ie:
>
> /dev/cd0             cdrom       cd9660   ro,noauto     0   0
>
> Each user has a cdrom directory under their home directory. You  
> still need mount points designated for all
> possible devices though.   Does anyone know  how  Darwin / OsX are  
> handling their auto-mount  magic?
>

There is a /Volumes folder, and each time user inserts usb flash or  
cd, the directory is created in that folder, named after a volume label,
and mounts the media into newly created directory.
Looks like the ``diskarbitrationd'' process is responsible for this.