[haiku-development] Re: file modification watching
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:27:24 +0200
On 2011-08-16 at 00:25:35 [+0200], Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> another (IMHO a bit hacky) solution would be to add a userland listener
> for open and close. The index server then watch files that have been
> opened writeable and do the node-entry mapping by itself.
The problem with open/close notifications is that there would be an awful
lot of them. E.g. Tracker uses the storage kit classes a lot (which
internally all use FDs), so it would probably generate thousands of
notifications when just opening a window with a few hundred entries.
CU, Ingo
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