[uae] Re: UAE Listing problems

  • From: "Anders Andersson" <pipatron@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:55:51 +0200

On 8/28/07, Richard de Rivaz <richard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Richard
>
> On 28/08/2007, you wrote:
>
> > A solution to this problem might be to take advantage of the host
> > OS's ability to do notification on the change of directory contents.
> > When UAE caches a directory, it would register for a notification
> > message when that directory is changed and refresh its cache on
> > receipt of such a message. Patches implementing this feature are
> > welcome. ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rich
>
> Thanks for that suggested feature. This does imply though that UAE can
> refresh its directory cache if requested. Alternatively could UAE's cache
> for a folder mounted on the host be capable of being disabled (.uaerc
> option)?
>
> The objective of all this is to be able to pass information between a linux
> application and a UAE based application using files in a folder to which
> each has access. Perhaps there is an alternative way of doing this?
>
> Regards Richard

Sure. Check out Samba.

// Anders

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