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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
To: rudi@lambda-computing.de
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File change notification (enhanced dnotify)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:16:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200403220216.i2M2GPn5006074@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:36:34 +0100." <405E4322.5030606@gamemakers.de>

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger_Klaehn?= <rudi@gamemakers.de> said:
> I am working on a mechanism to let programs watch for file system 
> changes in large directory trees or on the whole system. Since my last 
> post in january I have been trying various approaches.

How do you propose to handle the fact that there are changes to _files_,
which happen to be pointed to by entries in directories? There is no
"change in the directory tree" in Unix...
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-22  2:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-22  1:36 Rüdiger Klaehn
2004-03-22  2:16 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
     [not found] <405ECB77.9080803@gamemakers.de>
2004-03-22 15:00 ` Horst von Brand
2004-03-22 16:02   ` Rüdiger Klaehn
2004-03-22 16:41     ` Mike Waychison
2004-03-22 16:55       ` Rüdiger Klaehn
2004-03-22 17:19       ` Horst von Brand

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