Macos – Getting mount point when a USB device is inserted Mac OS X and linux

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I am trying to develop a program in Mac OS and Linux which lists the files and folders in USB drive. I need to get the some events when USB device is connected and removed. I know that in Mac OS X I can use IOKit. But I do n't know how to get the mount point where the device is mounted. Can I get it using IOkit? Is there any cross platform solution for Linux and Mac?

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No, there isn't. Under Linux you may use HAL or DeviceKit-disks D-Bus interfaces. Note those are optional components and may be absent. HAL is older and DeviceKit-disks is newer implementations, with DK-d replacing HAL.

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Cocoa – how to get Device id, vendor id and product id of a mounted usb device in Mac OS cocoa

I think you can get the product and vendor ID by

ioreg -p IOUSB -l -b | grep -E "@|idVendor|idProduct"

but not sure about the device ID. Maybe

ioreg -p IOUSB -l -b | grep -E "@|idVendor|idProduct|bcdDevice"

For my Arduino Uno these are the information I get:

+-o Arduino Uno@14100000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x100000bec, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (2 ms), retain 13>
      "idProduct" = 67
      "bcdDevice" = 1
      "idVendor" = 10755

How to eject a USB device (no icon) from a mac to be used in VM

You should be able to unmount a device on OSX with the umount command:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/umount.8.html

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