Hmm, darn. Guess I was thinking too far outside the box... I didn't know that about /proc and /sys :3 And I guess it would not be very portable... If it were implemented it could never become more mainstream than wicked. As it won't sork on FreeBSD and only a handful of people would use it knowing that it wont' work on /proc or /sys :( It's a good idea, but it'd only be useful if you were to monitor a file in your home dir or something...
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:45:03 +0100 Christophe-Marie Duquesne <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, /proc is not a real bloc device, inotify can't monitor it. You > can improve some widgets, but for most of them, it will be impossible. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Julien Danjou <[email protected]> wrote: > > At 1237331029 time_t, Nathan Huesken wrote: > >> What do you thing? Cool Idea or garbage? > > > > Both. > > To monitor regular file, you can use inotify. You should probably > > require à Lua module to access this function, but that should not be too > > hard to do. However, note that inotify is Linux specific. > > > > OTOH, and AFAIK, inotify won't work for /sys or /proc , because this 2 > > file systems are not real file sytems and no one is writing your > > battery status inside a file; it's when you open it that you go and ask your > > battery its status. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Julien Danjou > > // ᐰ <[email protected]> http://julien.danjou.info > > // 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD > > // When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAknAncIACgkQpGK1HsL+5c11RwCgoZN48Lujz6O54T7oY1W7gyB9 > > yUQAmgPvQl+tjyEdG/qDnFkRgGTzUT47 > > =uriq > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > -- > Christophe-Marie Duquesne > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
