Re: [RFC] Simple file monitoring API for GLib
- From: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>
- To: Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>
- Cc: GTK Devel List <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple file monitoring API for GLib
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 21:56:31 +0100
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:06 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 22:49 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > typedef enum {
> > G_FILE_CREATED_EVENT,
> > G_FILE_CHANGED_EVENT,
> > G_FILE_REMOVED_EVENT,
> > G_FILE_UNKNOWN_EVENT
> > } GFileEvent;
>
> Would G_FILE_CHANGED_EVENT be fired on file attribute change (like
> chmod, chown, or an extended attribute), or only on file content change?
The default implementation fires it when the st_mtime field of the stat
struct for the file is updated.
Other implementations might decide to merge the content+metadata cases.
If someone needs finer grained resolution, then gnome-vfs is the answer.
Ciao,
Emmanuele.
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Emmanuele Bassi - <ebassi gmail com>
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