Re: Icons of program

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper cygnus com>]

raster@redhat.com writes:

> ->  On NT you can watch a directory tree for changes.  Programs like
> ->  Explorer (or whatever the file manager is called) do this so they can
> ->  react even when you change the file system from the command line.
> ->  [...]
> ->  On Unix all you can do is poll -- lose, lose.
> 
> ooh.. the amiga could do this like Nt without polling YEARS and YEARs
> ago.. :) :) :) Just HAd to chime that one in.. :)

With Irix you have similar system calls.

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