On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for new
files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window manager,
which updates the user's desktop. The open makes the device in-use, preventing
an unmount.
Setting gamin to "poll" helps. (I assume it opens the directory, scans, then
closes it again, so there's a race condition there, but I haven't encountered it.)
gamin can also be disabled for certain directories. That works (AFAIR, it's
been a while), but then you lose instant icon updates on the very directories
where it is the most useful.
Can you tell me where any of this is documented?
I can't find squat about gamin.
Found on a google-quest after lsof or stat showed gamin locking the
directory where I was mounting stuff:
http://people.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html
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