On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:41:37AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > As an example, several server packages have file-notification > functionality. One that I'm using is Mediatomb: the lack of proper > file notifications makes it pretty much unusable because polling is a > very slow alternative when the trees to monitor are huge.
Julio, Are you sure that kqueue supports monitoring trees? I know that it's possible for to watch a directory with kqueue for nodes added/deleted/renamed, however, when a process watches directory x/ with kqueue it won't necessarily wake up if there is a change under x/y/ or x/y/z/. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [email protected] Urbana, IL * (217) 344-0444 x24
