Gerd Kohlberger wrote:
The IN_MODIFY bit isn't really useful for text files.
If you watch the event sequence which get emited by inotify you'll see
something like:
1) MOVE compiz.conf -> compiz.conf~
2) MOVE compiz.conf~ -> compiz.conf
3) DELETE compiz.conf~
So if you watch compiz.conf directly and you open it in a text editor
it gets moved.
After that inotify seems to loose track of that file and the kernel
will send an IN_IGNORED event,
which automatically removes the watch. This is why modify only works
the first time.
I think the best solution would be to watch only the ~/.compiz/options
dir and put all files in
this directory. You could changed the filenames to something like
<plugin>-<screen>.conf to represent
the different screens.
Thanks for the advice, I have changed it to do exactly that and it now
seems to be working perfectly for all editors that I have.
It seems that I still need IN_MODIFY because without it I was only
receiving notifications on the temp file.
I think all the major problems are solved now, its just a case of tidying
up here and there. I will probably need to add proper file locking but
it shouldn't cause too many problems. What happens when a file is
deleted will still need to be resolved (at the moment it just writes it
back)
http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/ini.c
I have ifdef'd out the MODIFY bit so it will still compile without the
IN_MODIFY patch.
Regards
Mike
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