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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com>
Cc: glegoo@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for a file monitor
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:05:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224130543.f5b46bcf.diegocg@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FEBE83.6070700@gmail.com>

El Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:06:27 -0600,
Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com> escribió:


> dnotify has been succeeded by inotify. check the link below:
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README

IIRC, inotify is not the best thing for examining system-wide events.
Monitoring of directories is not recursive (neither it should, i think)
so to examine the whole system you would need to need thousands of
watches.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-24 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-24  7:51 Looking for a file monitor Wei Hu
2006-02-24  8:06 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2006-02-24  8:38   ` Wei Hu
2006-02-24 12:05   ` Diego Calleja [this message]
2006-02-24 17:02     ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2006-02-25  0:40       ` Wei Hu
2006-02-25  4:00         ` Hareesh Nagarajan
     [not found] ` <43FEC9EC.7080902@dawes.za.net>
2006-02-24 15:03   ` Wei Hu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-25  0:46 Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-25  4:01 ` Hareesh Nagarajan
2006-02-25  8:49   ` Arjan van de Ven

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