On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:16:28 -0400 Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote: > 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. Indeed: http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=405 -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort FreeBSD org http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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