On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
> to inotify. There is also gammin/fam.
dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would
prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify also uses a file
descripter per watched item, which could get interesting for large
amounts of watches!
I'm not sure about FAM, but Gamin uses inotify or dnotify anyway (in
Linux). I think they're all designed in a similar way: you have to
register a whole bunch of files or directories to watch.
thanks,
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