Re: [gamin] Recursiveley monitoring large collections

[Shez <shinyshez yahoo co uk>]

Cheers, I'll give inotify a go.  

If that doesn't work I'll probably move to using
ptrace on the fileserver (smb/nfs) software, as this
will be the only way of accessing the files in the
application.

Thanks again
Shez:)

--- Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:08:36PM +0100, Shez
> wrote:
> > sorry, xxxx should be 9000 directories.
> 
>   This can't work on a dnotify based system as
> monitoring a directory 
> requires to open() the directory and you will
> exhaust the number of file
> descriptor openable by a single process. Try
> inotify, or a polling based
> method.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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