On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 08:08:20PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Henry Vermaak wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:14AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >>On 2014-04-11 20:06, Krzysztof wrote: > >>>idea how to do this in thread loop but maybe FPC has OS solution > >>As the others have said, the OS solutions are very version/distro > >>dependent - especially under Linux which changes underlying > >>functionality every 6 months or so (so damn annoying). > > > >No, the linux solution isn't distro dependent, since it's in the kernel. > >inotify came in 2005-ish to deprecate dnotify, but even dnotify still > >exists (read the man page for fcntl). The kernel guys are pretty > >serious about not breaking userspace interfaces. > > I've just been running a kernel build and note that there are explicit > dnotify and inotify options, so what's built in is very much at the > discretion of the distro maintainers.
Almost everything in the kernel is configurable at build time, obviously. I've never come across a kernel without inotify/dnotify, even for old embedded ARM CPUs I've worked with (I guess no-one wants to waste power scanning directories and fstat-ing all the time). Distros usually build pretty full featured kernels, so I'd be surprised to see a distro without it. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
