On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Albert Lee <tr...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:33:16 +0100, Vincent Torri > <vincent.to...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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. > > That specifies how you would handle the event, not how you receive events. > You still need FEN to inform your application *when* a directory event > occurs. > no. Polling every a certain amount of time. It takes time and ressource of course, but FEN too.
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