Re: Select files for incremental indexing

I'm an idiot!!! Where was my eyes?

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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:51:08 -0700
From: Bill Moseley <[email protected]>
To: "Dmitri V. Ivanov" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Select files for incremental indexing

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:25:56AM -0700, Dmitri V. Ivanov wrote:
> Yes. I mean that ctime isn't sufficient measure. But to get it we anyway
> call stat() and data it provides is sufficient. But we must remember
> name and inode number pairs for all directories and monitor it's
> changes. Problem is only to sync our remembered data and order of files
> and directories we read. I've used sorting for it.

Yes, using mtime is not right -- checking other changes to stat()
might be better.  Of course, we are interested if *content* changes so
a file's mtime, ctime, inode can all change but the contents could
still be exactly the same.

The -N switch checking mtime is fine for the common case where someone
might update a file in place with new contents.  swish-e -h shows:

    -N : index only files with a modification date newer than path supplied
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Using -S prog might be more appropriate way to deal with more complex
situations.  That's what it's for.

-- 
Bill Moseley
[email protected]
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WBR
Dmitri Ivanov