On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Albert Lee <tr...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:22:54 +0100, Vincent Torri > <vincent.to...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Albert Lee <tr...@opensolaris.org> > wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:38:23 +0100, Vincent Torri > >> <vincent.to...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Vincent Torri > >> > <vincent.to...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Darren J Moffat > >> >> <darr...@opensolaris.org>wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> Vincent Torri wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>>> Hey, > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I would like to know how I can notify the file system on > >> >>>> OpenSolaris. > >> >>>> The > >> >>>> low level API on linux is Inotify (it's a kernel module), and on > >> >>>> Windows, it > >> >>>> is ReadDirectoryChangeW||. Which one is it with OpenSolaris ? > >> >>>> > >> >>> > >> >>> You need to use the port event system. > >> >>> > >> >>> See port_create(3C), port_associate(3C) > >> >>> > >> >>> [snip] > >> >> > >> >> thanks to both of you, that's exactly what I want > >> >> > >> >> actually, i am now trying to implement what i want, and it seems > that > >> > there is no way to know if a file has been created. > >> > > >> > from here: http://blogs.sun.com/praks/entry/file_events_notification > >> there > >> > is no 'created' event to watch. Am I wrong ? > >> > > >> > >> You'll have to rewinddir() and readdir() on a FILE_MODIFIED event. This > >> does present a scalability problem for large directories. > >> > > > > indeed, it does. We already have a file monitoring based on listing > files, > > which works well. I think i'll use it instead of using FEN. > > > Eh? How would you get notified of file create/delete without FEN? > > by doing exactly what is proposed: keeping in a list all the files and see if one is removed or added. But without using that useless API.
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