Re: [Nautilus-list] Directory change signals?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

David Bishop <david bishop dhs org> writes:

> My email has been broken for a day, so I don't know if this has already been 
> brought up, but fam the user-space daemon can be combined with "imon" to do 
> exactly what you guys are talking about. Fam, buy itself, does not require 
> any kernel changed at all, and does, in fact, monitor the entire file system 
> (not just specifcally requested ones).  If kernel level support is not 
> implemented, it falls back to a polling mode, so that any *nix can run fam.  
> However, if you are running linux, you can install the imon patch that allows 
> any file-system changes to be reported directly to fam, and from there to 
> your program (nautilus, efm, whatever).  The reason I bring up efm 
> (Englitenment's file manager) is because that is exactly what they are using, 
> and it works great.  They have people on solaris, freebsd (that's be me!), 
> and of course linux, all of which can run it, and get the benefits of real-
> time or very-close-to-real-time updates. As is mentioned below this, fam and 
> imon are available from sgi, and I would highly recommend talking to some sgi 
> and enlightenment folks regarding how it works and where they see the 
> development going. To sum up: fam doesn't *require* a kernel patch, though it 
> runs better with one, and as such it is defintely worth a close inspection. 
> 

David,

We've already looked at fam/imon, and are very seriously considering
using them for a future release of Nautilus. However, we decided we
didn't have time to put it in for 1.0.

 - Maciej