Re: GFileMonitor API improvments?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:45 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For the Tracker project we need to know certain things when monitoring
> the file system depending on each backend used (inotify/fam/polling/etc).

IMO, for something like Tracker, you're better off using the native
APIs, rather than glib's.

The API in glib will always be the lowest common denominator between
what's possible on different platforms, and special casing based on the
backend is bound to create problems.

Cheers