On Thursday 03 April 2008 12:25:55 John Conover wrote:
> Does freebsd support the F_NOTIFY, (i.e., File and directory change
> notification,) in fcntl(2)?
>
> I get that it doesn't, but its an old 5X version, and I might have to
> upgrade.
Nope, this is a GNU extension to fcntl. File change notifications are done
with EVFILT_VNODE using kqueue(2). Directory changes have no interface that I
know of. You might wanna take a look at how devel/gamin handles this,
specifically the kqueue implementation.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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