Re: Rox's directory caching

2008/8/19 Stephen Watson <[email protected]>:
> "Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 2008/8/17 Stephen Watson <[email protected]>:
>> > Thomas Leonard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > dnotify stopped working for me when I upgraded from SuSE 10.2 to 11.0.
> As
>> > far as I can tell it compiles with dnotify support, it just doesn't
> notice
>> > when the directory changes.
>>
>> Does dnotify work from the command line?
>
> Err, I didn't know that dnotify had a command line interface!  apropos shows
> nothing.

$ dnotify --help
Usage: dnotify [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... [-e COMMAND...]
Execute a command every time the contents of a directory change.
...

Maybe it's in a separate package? The Ubuntu command comes from the
"dnotify" package.


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