Re: Desktop

[allbery <allbery+ ece cmu edu>]

> The problem is that the only portable way to do this is to continuously
> recan the directory (every 2 sec. for example).
> BTW, this is how Windows does it. I have been told that OS/2 does the same

???  OS/2 has a DosFSCtl() interface to allow notification of file
system changes via a kernel message queue; I would expect the WPS to use it.

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