Metadata caching

[Stefano Cobianchi <stefano tomato it>]

Hi all

I'm writing a set of Nautilus scripts to handle CVS files. One of these
scripts analyzes the contents of a directory and sets the appropriate
emblem for each file according to its CVS status. It does this by
modifying .nautilus-metafile.xml (with Ruby+REXML). All would be
fine if it wasn't for the fact that Nautilus caches metadata information
and there is no way to tell it to refresh this data (apart from sending
a SIGHUP - but it's rather ugly).
How can I solve this problem? Is there a way to monitor metafiles
for changes and update directory views accordingly?

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Stefano Cobianchi	| stefano tomato it
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