Re: [gamin] monitoring of links

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:51:01AM +1000, TomPh wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm quite keen to see gamin comply with its (or at least, FAM's) stated
> policy of not following links. Thanks to some recent effort by John
> McC, the inotify backend is close to meeting that standard. The
> dnotify backend seems to be further away. Can't comment on the others.
> 
> To facilitate this, seems to me that a couple of test-cases, dealing
> with directory-links and non-directory-links, would help. I have
> candidates, and a patch for testing.c to allow it to do linking. Does
> this list have a policy on mailing attachments ? 

  no problem, use attachments to avoid scrambling by the MTA

> I figure that directory-monitoring an existing link to a dir should
> report the same as attempting to monitor a non-existent dir. OK?

  Dunno, someone should check with famd :-\

> And completely ignore any newly-created link that would, if not a link,
> be monitored as a dir. OK ?

  same answer checking with famd first would be better.

> And otherwise treat links as files in their own right, without reference
> to their respective targets (if any).

  that's what FAM page says, how it actually behave might be slightly
different.

Daniel

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