Re: [gamin] monitoring a dir + subdirs using python-gamin

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:10:55AM +0200, daniele favara wrote:
> On 4/11/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:01:25AM +0200, daniele favara wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > one question .. is it possible to monitor subdirs using python-gamin ?
> > >
> > > i see i have to add them using  watch_directory ...
> > >
> > > case:
> > >
> > > i'm monitoring $HOME/foo a directory "bar" with subdirs + files has
> > > been added .. gamin will notify just "bar".
> > >
> > > what is the best way to monitor everything  in $HOME/foo?
> >
> >   You really need to recurse and put a watch on every directories. See
> > the code for monitoring in sabayon, it does that.
> >   I tend to think watching everything under a user directory can't work
> > very well with the current kernel interfaces, you have a race between
> > the time a directory is created or removed and the time the user space
> > can put a watch on it, there is a scaling issue too.
> >
> hi Daniel
> thanks for answering :)
> 
> in the mean time i figured it out :).
> 
> the idea is to use xapian engine and gamin to monitor a dir ... the
> result should be a dirty and ugly beagle :). i'm just experimenting ..
> nothing really serious ..
> 
> do you think it's not yet doable ?

  doable, yes. Pretty, no. Again see the sabayon's code about monitoring to
find such an example of python based recursive monitoring.

Daniel

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