Re: [Nautilus-list] FAM problems

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 5 Oct 2001, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

> On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 10:24, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> on 10/5/01 12:21 AM, Yoann Vandoorselaere at yoann mandrakesoft com
> wrote:
>     
>     > Yes, it seem that notification do not work (Fam notice the directory
>     > change and tell Nautilus, but Nautilus doesn't seem to react). That's
>     > also the behavior I'm experiencing here (I'll try to post more data on
>     > this).
>     
>     If this has stopped working, it's most likely due to the changes Alex
>     Larsson made to use g_io_channel instead of gdk_input_add. Maybe this new
>     code doesn't work as portably as the old?
>     
> I have noticed these things, thought they might be interesting:
> 
> When things work, I see this:
> 
>     ($:~)-> ps auxw | grep fam
>     tigert   23531  0.2  0.4  3412 1152 ?    S    07:59   0:27 fam
> 
> When things dont work, I see this:
> 
>     ($:~)-> ps auxw | grep fam
>     root     12345  0.2  0.4  3412 1152 ?    S    07:59   0:27 fam
> 
> (the above is fake mockup, but you get the idea) FAM doesnt change the
> user-id to the username-that-uses-it for some reason. When it does work
> right with Nautilus, it changes it. FAM seems to get started by nautilus
> in any case though.

Please get fam 2.6.4-13 from rawhide. In 2.6.4-8 i added a fix to 
situations like this (it got 'stuck' on the old user), and in 2.6.4-13 i 
fixed a change-notify race that made nautilus show "0 bytes", because fam 
didn't send enough change notifies.

/ Alex