On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:51:01AM +1000, TomPh wrote: > Hi all > > I'm quite keen to see gamin comply with its (or at least, FAM's) stated > policy of not following links. Thanks to some recent effort by John > McC, the inotify backend is close to meeting that standard. The > dnotify backend seems to be further away. Can't comment on the others. > > To facilitate this, seems to me that a couple of test-cases, dealing > with directory-links and non-directory-links, would help. I have > candidates, and a patch for testing.c to allow it to do linking. Does > this list have a policy on mailing attachments ?
no problem, use attachments to avoid scrambling by the MTA > I figure that directory-monitoring an existing link to a dir should > report the same as attempting to monitor a non-existent dir. OK? Dunno, someone should check with famd :-\ > And completely ignore any newly-created link that would, if not a link, > be monitored as a dir. OK ? same answer checking with famd first would be better. > And otherwise treat links as files in their own right, without reference > to their respective targets (if any). that's what FAM page says, how it actually behave might be slightly different. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
