Re: Rox's directory caching

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:38:49 -0500, Alex Austin wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Thomas Leonard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> 2008/8/13 Lennon Cook <[email protected]>:
>> > rox-filer currently caches the contents of directories, including
>> > MIME types, for a certain amount of time.
>>
>> I haven't looked at the code for a while, but I don't remember it doing
>> that. If it re-reads a directory (which it will do when it detects a
>> change) it should work out the type again. The talk of 'caches' in the
>> xdgmime code is (I think) about caching the MIME database rather than
>> the results.
>>
>> I opened a filer window and then, in an xterm, did:
>>
>> $ touch test
>> $ rm test; echo '#!/usr/bin/env python' > test
>>
> What if you don't rm test? Keep the inode the same?

Still works for me:

$ touch test2
$ echo '#!/usr/bin/env python' >> test2
$ touch some-new-file

(you have to change the directory in some way just to generate an event 
that will cause the filer to rescan it, but as soon as it rescans it sees 
the new type)

Using the newer inotify it should be possible to get notified when a file 
inside a directory changes, even when the directory itself doesn't. ROX-
Filer currently uses dnotify, except on the gio branch, which uses 
whatever gio uses.


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