Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:31:08PM -0700, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > If you where to watch for events on an entire directory tree, what types > of events that would be? Presumably there would be some way to specify, but file creation/deletion would be the most obviously useful events. > How woul

Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-03 Thread Prakash Sangappa
John Levon wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:44:01PM -0700, Prakash Sangappa wrote: FILE_CREATE File/Directory was created. I think GNOME and others want to be able to watch an entire directory tree. It sounds like the proposal is that you can only watch a particular p

Re: [perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-03 Thread John Levon
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:44:01PM -0700, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > FILE_CREATE File/Directory was created. I think GNOME and others want to be able to watch an entire directory tree. It sounds like the proposal is that you can only watch a particular path "/etc/non_existent_file"

[perf-discuss] File events notification mechansim

2006-05-03 Thread Prakash Sangappa
Hi All, We are working on adding a 'file events notification/monitoring' mechanism to the Event ports framework in Solaris. There are several different implementations around this file events notification mechanism currently available, like 'dnotify, inotify' for Linux or the 'FAM' from SGI e