|| On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:01:18 +0100 || Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
fp> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> I didn't look the source but I think the use should be more or less
>> like:
>>
>> client ask lib to connect
>> lib try
>> if sucess, show the image or like
>> else report it can't
>>
>> Probably the else need to be improved. I think could be possible to
>> detect, in lib, if is or not possible to contact the device due
>> permission problems. So, if possible, it's the right place to do it.
fp> Actually there is a first step "autodetect camera", libgphoto2 will return
fp> GP_ERROR_MODEL_NOT_FOUND (-105) if none is found. This is the right place
fp> to tell the user he may need to be in the 'camera' group.
fp> Unfortunately I don't think it is possible to correctly detect permission
fp> problems using /proc/ (and I don't think using /sys is an option for the
fp> moment).
Why you think we shouldn't use /sys now?
IMHO, if we have the possibility to detect it directly in library is
the way to go. So we don't need to report bugs in all packages using
libgphoto2.
This is a really critical bugs for usability of the system. We can't
force the user to know about specific groups. We need at last report a
suitable error message for he decide what to do.
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