Re: B_STAT_CHANGED

"Andrew Bachmann" <abachmann-CzTbWX96vYR8UrSeD/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <48942668543-BeMail@shuttle>
"Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> There are two solutions to this problem:
> 1) we could add another message field to B_STAT_CHANGED messages, that 
> contain information about the intermediate state of the event, or
> 2) we introduce another event type like B_STAT_UPDATE to the list.

I vote for #2 since apps should already be dealing with numerous stat changed
events from the dos filesystem, as previously noted.  I'm thinking that such an
event could also be used for doing something when a file was finished
downloading or copying like that add-on monitor thing we have.

Andrew



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