On 12/18/05, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a look at this about a year ago. KQueue/KEvent on Free/NetBSD > allowed you to watch a single file / folder, but this limited you to > 1024 watched files per process (each file required an open file > descriptor). > > Linux had inotify, which had the same limitation. > > On OS X there was an undocumented system call 'searchfs,' which > allowed you to quickly search based on file system metadata, so you > could (for example) poll every n seconds for all files with access > times more recent than n seconds ago. This only really worked on HFS > + (which stores metadata in B+ trees separate from the inodes, unlike > UFS-like filesystems, which store them on the inodes), but it did > more or less work. >
After doing some research, I have to say that Linux/BSD are not ready to this kind of purpose yet. It can still be done (like beagle), but not in an elegant way. I guess we just need to wait. Yen-Ju > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev >
