Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement | From | John McCutchan <> | Date | Mon, 10 May 2004 18:41:40 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 18:31, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2004, John McCutchan wrote: > > > > 3) dnotify cannot easily watch changes for a directory hierarchy > > > > People don't seem to really care about this one. Alexander Larsson has > > said he doesn't care about it. It might be nice to add in the future. > > Please excuse my ignorance, but who is Alexander Larsson? A dnotify > replacement that does not have the ability to watch for a hierarchy is > pretty much useless. Or do you want to drop thousands of single watches to > accomplish that?
Alexander Larsson is the maintainer of nautilus, gnome-vfs and I think the dnotify patch for fam. He made a post to l-k a month or two ago about why he doesn't care about it. I do plan on adding this feature in the near future though.
John
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