Re: Nautilus Refresh

[Stian Skjelstad <stian nixia no>]

> > There has been some work done on symlink monitoring but eventually we
> > found out it is too expensive and never committed the code upstream.
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536172
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546954
> >
> 
> Interesting, this sounds cool. I am surprised however that in the case
> of 546954 using inotify is too expensive. I would have thought the
> only expense is handling the signal and refreshing the view and there
> wouldn't be an overhead when symlinks aren't being modified.  Is this
> not true? Perhaps I don't understand inotify fully.

I would guess that systems not having inotify support would have to use
the other slow method in order to behave the same, which was considered
beeing to slow.

Stian Skjelstad