Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Alan Cox
2004-09-02T10:56:48Z

On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:16, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> (For example, if I edit an HTML file which is encoded in iso-8859-1,
> change it to utf-8 and indicate that in a META element, and save it
> under the same name, the full content-type should change from
> "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" to "text/html; charset=utf-8".)
>
> I don't see how you can do that without kernel support.
>
> Don't say dnotify or inotify, because neither would work.

inotify done right is useful here as well as in a lot of other desktop
cases where dnotify doesn't really scale. Its enough to let me

- Find the new file
- Virus scan it
- Classify its possible type heirarchies
- Index it

Alan