On 4/11/06, Daniel Veillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:01:25AM +0200, daniele favara wrote: > > hi all, > > > > one question .. is it possible to monitor subdirs using python-gamin ? > > > > i see i have to add them using watch_directory ... > > > > case: > > > > i'm monitoring $HOME/foo a directory "bar" with subdirs + files has > > been added .. gamin will notify just "bar". > > > > what is the best way to monitor everything in $HOME/foo? > > You really need to recurse and put a watch on every directories. See > the code for monitoring in sabayon, it does that. > I tend to think watching everything under a user directory can't work > very well with the current kernel interfaces, you have a race between > the time a directory is created or removed and the time the user space > can put a watch on it, there is a scaling issue too. > hi Daniel thanks for answering :)
in the mean time i figured it out :). the idea is to use xapian engine and gamin to monitor a dir ... the result should be a dirty and ugly beagle :). i'm just experimenting .. nothing really serious .. do you think it's not yet doable ? > > -- > Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ > http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ > -- ---- http://dsslive.org ---- _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
