Re: Recursive modified-timestamp?

[Piotr Neuman <sikkh@wp.pl>]

Dnia sobota 01 styczeñ 2005 04:12, Alexander G. M. Smith napisa³:
> Fred Schaettgen wrote on Sat, 1 Jan 2005 01:43:48 +0100:
> > The file system itself could help for instance by providing a new
> > "change-monitor"-flag for a file. This flag would be set only from
> > userspace and reset when the file is modified. If the flag is still set
> > when the file is being modified, the filesystem would then create a
> > symlink or something like for the file in a special directory.
>
> That reminds me that the other thing BeOS had was a change notification
> system using messaging.  If you requested monitoring of a directory or
> file (with flags to say which kind of changes are of interest) then
> it would send your program a BMessage with the details (such as a file
> being added to a directory).

Linux has both inotify and dnotify. I really love the kind of threads where 
nobody cares to do the research into existing solutions /approaches and 
everybody are talking about their ideas (which is of course easier than 
searching on google).

ps. and yup the GNOME folks are busy coding for inotify instead of imagining 
"something that may or may not exist". Just becose you send stuff to 
technical mailing list, doesn't mean you have a clue...