Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2003 22:40:20 +0100 | From | Alexander Kellett <> | Subject | watching for file creation completion [was Re: Synchronous signal delivery..] |
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hiya all,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:45:18PM +0300, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > These functions have one nice purpose: we can watch a directory hierarchy > for changes an efficient way. e.g. AFAIK via dnotify I can only see that > directory was changed, but cannot actually get all the changes. If I will > re-read all directory, I can miss some changes (if other process is > tampering with this dir too).
fully agreed. queued events / batch notifications would also be kind of nice.
the fact that it is not possible to see if a file write has been completely written out currently (i.e, written to and then closed) is quite frustrating. anyone got any ideas for this?
currently i'm doing the ugly - readdir on dnotify signal, then check mtime's to see if > 5 seconds, and just assume the writing process has finished, then force a readdir in case any events were missed while dnotify notification was off.
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