On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Albert Lee <tr...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:38:23 +0100, Vincent Torri > <vincent.to...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Vincent Torri > > <vincent.to...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Darren J Moffat > >> <darr...@opensolaris.org>wrote: > >> > >>> Vincent Torri wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hey, > >>>> > >>>> I would like to know how I can notify the file system on OpenSolaris. > >>>> The > >>>> low level API on linux is Inotify (it's a kernel module), and on > >>>> Windows, it > >>>> is ReadDirectoryChangeW||. Which one is it with OpenSolaris ? > >>>> > >>> > >>> You need to use the port event system. > >>> > >>> See port_create(3C), port_associate(3C) > >>> > >>> [snip] > >> > >> thanks to both of you, that's exactly what I want > >> > >> actually, i am now trying to implement what i want, and it seems that > > there is no way to know if a file has been created. > > > > from here: http://blogs.sun.com/praks/entry/file_events_notification > there > > is no 'created' event to watch. Am I wrong ? > > > > You'll have to rewinddir() and readdir() on a FILE_MODIFIED event. This > does present a scalability problem for large directories. > indeed, it does. We already have a file monitoring based on listing files, which works well. I think i'll use it instead of using FEN. > > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18695&tstart=465 mentions > that FILE_CREATE and FILE_DELETE for directories were not implemented > because it would require queuing of multiple events in the kernel (the > other events coalesce so they don't have this issue). >
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