J. Ali Harlow wrote:
> On 02/18/2008 03:56:59 PM, Vlad Grecescu wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I don't know if there's any interest / work in progress on this, but 
>> noticing that the new Gio implementation lacks a directory monitor 
>> for windows I wrote one (patch against 2.15.4 attached, should work 
>> on 2.15.5 too)
>
> I had to write something along these lines for a proprietary 
> application a few years ago. I found that I needed to track the 
> mapping of short names to long names for MS-Windows since the kernel 
> has a habit of reporting file actions using the names passed in by the 
> application. Thus if an application deletes a file using its short 
> name by the time we get to hear about it, it's too late to ask the 
> kernel what its long name was. I don't see anything in your code to do 
> this.
> Cheers,
>
> Ali.

Well, I haven't got the chance to notice that but I suppose you're right.
I'll see what I can do to handle it without race conditions :)

I suppose there are few old programs that do this by default.

Thanks,
Vlad
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