[gamin] Regarding absolute paths

[Wijnand Modderman <wijnand wijnand name>]

Hello,

I found out about Gamin when I was looking for a library that could  
handle inotify hooks in Python.

Gamin is working nicely, and reports changes in the directory  
structure quite fast. However, it seems to pass both absolute and  
relative paths as a feedback in the callback events. Is there any way  
to alter this behavior? Or is there any "best practice" to reconstruct  
the absolute path from the relative paths given?

Example:

>>> import gamin
>>> def callback(path, event):
...	print path, event
>>> monitor = gamin.WatchMonitor()
>>> monitor.watch_directory('/tmp/test', callback)

[... now in another shell, I create /tmp/test/foo ...]

>>> monitor.handle_events()
>>> monitor.stop_watch('/tmp/test')

This results in:

    bar 5

While I would like to find out that this was "/tmp/test/foo". In the  
full project I am registering about 5000 paths to monitor.

Regards,

Wijnand Modderman

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