[haiku-development] Re: Entry rename and queries
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:50:40 +0100
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2009-11-23 at 23:24:57 [+0100], Laurent Humbertclaude
> <laurent.humbertclaude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is there a way to watch for an entire directory and any
> > subdirectory?
> Nope. We (Axel and I) considered implementing this, but were a bit
> undecided
> as it would add a bit of additional overhead to the checks whether a
> certain
> change requires sending a notification (one would need to iterate
> through the
> list of ancestor directories up to the root of the volume).
Actually, we have written a userland solution called BPathMonitor (see
headers/private/storage/PathMonitor.h and src/kits/storage/PathMonitor.
cpp). This is still experimental at this point, though, so you may want
to copy it verbatim to use in your own projects.
Bye,
Axel.
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