Hello Emery Thanks for the explanation. With this information I see, why closing and re-opening files on notification is required.
Cheers, Pirmin On 11/3/20 10:57 AM, Emery Hemingway wrote: > Hello Pirmin, > > From what I remember, given that the watch notifications do not carry > any metadata on the nature of the notification (for better or worse), > closing and reopening the handles is the best way for fs_rom to stay > informed. > > I believe the reasoning was that if a file exists and is watched, then a > new file is "moved" to replace the watched file, a fresh watch handle > needs to be opened. I think many text editors and other tools do this. > > Cheers, > Emery > > > _______________________________________________ > Genode users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users -- Pirmin Duss Founder and Senior Software Engineer gapfruit AG Baarerstrasse 135 CH-6300 Zug +41 79 683 61 84 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Genode users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users
