Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: fam question

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 10/26/01 1:31 PM, Alex Larsson at alexl redhat com wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
>> As far as I can tell, FAM doesn't notify you if you are monitoring a file
>> (not the file's directory) and you delete that file. Is that a bug in the
>> Red Hat FAM, or working as designed? Maybe monitoring a file just monitors
>> the inode? Can I monitor a file name and find out when that file name is
>> unlinked without monitoring the whole directory it's in?
> 
> It worked for me.
> 
> Just running the test app from the fam distro:
> 
> bash-2.05$ fam_test -f /tmp/x/1
> FAMMonitorFile("/tmp/x/1")
> FAMMonitorFile("/tmp/x/1")
> FILE /tmp/x/1:   /tmp/x/1 Exists
> FILE /tmp/x/1:   /tmp/x/1 EndExist
> FILE /tmp/x/1:   /tmp/x/1 was deleted
> 
> In what context did this not work?

OK. I see what I forgot to mention. Try it again with a directory. So
/tmp/x/1 should be a directory, not a file.

That's the case that didn't work.

    -- Darin