Re: Rox's directory caching

"Thomas Leonard" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

No such package in SuSE 11.  There's an iwatch for inotify but nothing for
dnotify.  I wonder if SuSE have given up on dnotify.

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