Looks like it's not that simple. Nobody responded. :-/
I analyzed inotify-tools source and they do everything on paths. Of
course that means a lot of careful updating etc, but should work in
lack of more elegant solution.
Paweł
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 20:47, j.din...@gmail.com
inotify is a piece of crap, you can only monitor a directory, from
that you have to reread the listing and see what's changed for
yourself.
2009/6/3 Paweł Hajdan Jr. phajdan...@chromium.org:
Looks like it's not that simple. Nobody responded. :-/
I analyzed inotify-tools source and they do
Since we're using GTK for the Linux port would there be any reason not
to use FAM (File Alteration Monitor) which supports things like this?
Yet another dependency for users of other DE's, but most of them
probably won't use chromium due to GTK anyway.
2009/6/3 Dan Kegel
There is a rewrite (or cleaned up version, I'm not sure) maintained by GNOME
called gamin.
2009/6/3 Dan Kegel daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com:
FAM is pretty old, and didn't have a sterling reputation for scalability.
inotify would probably be better.
(The FAM mailing list at SGI appears to be
FAM is pretty old, and didn't have a sterling reputation for scalability.
inotify would probably be better.
(The FAM mailing list at SGI appears to be dead...?)
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Stefan Nuxoll ste...@nuxoll.eu.org wrote:
Since we're using GTK for the Linux port would there be any
gamin is probably closer to usable, but I'm a bit nervous about
depending on it. It looks like the JDS guys found a performance bug
last year
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/jds-review/2008-March/002295.html
but no new release of gamin has appeared in
Mmm, the last commit was at 2008-10-20. So it does unfortunately look like
using inotify would be for the best.
2009/6/3 Dan Kegel daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com
gamin is probably closer to usable, but I'm a bit nervous about
depending on it. It looks like the JDS guys found a performance bug
