[gamin] Re: gam_subscription.c clean up

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 03:53:18PM +0100, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> Clean up for gam_subscription.c consisting of documentation fixes and
> some assertions.

  not looked at yet. Just replying to the following.

> Question: what are the exact semantics of the force parameter to
> gam_subscription_wants_event?  I see the code and it seems to me that
> if the subscription is to a directory, the event occured on a
> directory and the path on which the event occured is the path which
> the subscription is monitoring, then GAMIN_EVENT_EXISTS,
> GAMIN_EVENT_CHANGED and GAMIN_EVENT_ENDEXISTS are suppressed.  Why?
> 
> The SGI documentation has the following example:
> 
>   Example: A client monitors a directory containing two files. Later,
>   another program creates a third file.
> 
>   User calls     FAMMonitorDirectory(... "/a/b" ...)
>   FAM events:    FAMExists       /a/b
>                  FAMExists       file_one
>                  FAMExists       file_two
>                  FAMEndExist     /a/b
>   Third file created.
>                  FAMCreated      file_three
> 
> 
> Gamin should emit FAMExists and FAMEndExist for /a/b.  Right?

  not always ! See the noexist extension.
  http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/differences.html

Daniel


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