Execute an application on Mac OS X when a particular type of USB device is connected?

Question

I need to implement a Mac OS X application. In my application I need to do two things:

1. Execute / Open an application when a particular type of USB device is c

Answer 1

It really depends on what sort of application you are looking at.

It does look like there is no way to do it in a similar fashion to udev for example.

To controversial solutions would be:

• Write a custom wrapper driver for your device
• Use libusb and have a daemon to wait for certain device.

And in fact one could write a program with libusb which will handle this sort of tasks according to a given config file, that would be also cross-platform since libusb supports quite a few platforms.