On Oct 10 15:54, jurgen van lunenburg wrote: > I have a basic Cygwin installation + rtorrent including dependencies. > Downloading (manually) with rtorrent works fine but when I set the > path of the watch folder it does not seem to process it. > However, it does work when my path does not contain the '*' wildcard. > > E.g. /home/user/watch/*.torrent is not processed i.e. the load command > in the config file does not load it--with no errors thrown. > But /home/user/watch/mytorrent.torrent is loaded into rtorrent normally. > Could not find anything in the FAQ to explain this behavior. > > I installed rtorrent + dependencies from the cygwin installer wizard > on windows 7. > The same setup works on an ubuntu system. So I suspect Cygwin is > missing functionality rtorrent relies on. Any ideas on how to solve?
Dunno how rtorrent is watching file chages, but Cygwin does not(*) provide a file system events monitoring API like inotify on Linux. Corinna (*) yet. Patches welcome. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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