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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 23:33:33
Message-Id: 201005060133.06402.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes by Iain Buchanan
1 On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
3 > > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
4 > > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam.
5 >
6 > dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would
7 > prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify also uses a file
8 > descripter per watched item, which could get interesting for large
9 > amounts of watches!
10 >
11 > I'm not sure about FAM, but Gamin uses inotify or dnotify anyway (in
12 > Linux). I think they're all designed in a similar way: you have to
13 > register a whole bunch of files or directories to watch.
14 >
15 > thanks,
16
17 oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug
18 ridden zombie is still around?

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>