On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently > > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. > > dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would > prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify also uses a file > descripter per watched item, which could get interesting for large > amounts of watches! > > I'm not sure about FAM, but Gamin uses inotify or dnotify anyway (in > Linux). I think they're all designed in a similar way: you have to > register a whole bunch of files or directories to watch. > > thanks,
oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug ridden zombie is still around?
