Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Wed, 14 Feb: > > I'm not sure I follow the sequence of events that you expect - the > monitoring program runs on Windows and looks at a directory shared over the > network through Samba? Then why is FAM supposed to help here? FAM is a > Linux-side thing. Are you looking to create some sort of a "proxy" that will
the windows filesystem layer supports callbacks. this means an application can "subscribe" to a directory or a file, and get notified if something in it changes, like a file is added. the windows-side program is expecting the directory to call it back and so it does not scan the directory repeatedly for new files dropped in Samba, on the other hand, accepts the callback request and is supposed to support this by using fam/gamin to detect changes, since the callback feature is of course not available in the Linux VFS API, or whoever could have been in charge of this. This means that when a file is dropped in a directory that is shared, gamin would notify samba which would notify the remote mounting party that the directory has changed, and the chain is closed. however, this does not seem to work, and I can't find how to turn it on, even though I see that Samba is compiled on Debian with the FAM support. -- Master of magnetism Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
