Ok, I suppose you could contribute a FAM backend for tracker-miner-fs then. Wouldn't be bad to have support for multiple kinds of file- monitoring.
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 09:37 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:26 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > Hi. > > > FAM is for intercepting syscalls like open I believe. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Alteration_Monitor > > The FAM subsystem allows applications to watch certain files and be > notified when they are modified. > > FAM is network-aware, and if a monitor is started on an NFS share, it > will attempt to contact a FAM server on the NFS server and have it > monitor the file locally, which is more efficient. > > > Tracker uses inotify at this moment. > > But inotify only works on local files. > > Cheers, > b. > _______________________________________________ > tracker-list mailing list > tracker-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
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