Re: Time to move GGV to the Attic?

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 à 11:54 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:02 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:22 +0200, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> > > a) evince doesn't have the option of "automaticaly reload document
> > > if changed"
> > 
> > There was a bug for this, but I think it was closed as you can't
> > reliably tell when a changing file will stop being changed.   Pressing
> > Control-R isn't too difficult though.
> 
> You can tell reliably:  inotify gives you IN_CLOSE_WRITE, which means
> that a writable file was closed.

Unfortunately, this event is not handled by the inotify backend of
GNOME-VFS, probably because gnome-vfs file change semantic is not wide
enough :(

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva