[Omake] Inotify

[Nathaniel Gray]

Jason Hickey wrote:
> Abstract thinking about some pending issues:)  We use file notifications 
> a lot, and it looks like inotify looks much nicer/more-efficient than 
> fam/gamin.  It isn't yet standard, and hasn't even made it into the 
> Fedora kernels, but it seems certain that this is the way to go.
> 
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html
> 
> At the base level, inotify requires only one file descriptor for an 
> application, and it also permits unmounts on the monitored filesystem, 
> both very nice features.  Now if only OSX would make some progress...

OS X has something interesting, but probably not useful for omake.  The 
entire filesystem is monitored for spotlight and you can tap into that 
if you're root.  There would still be the remote filesystem issue, of 
course.

-n8

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