Re: File monitor rewrite: Solaris (and other) help wanted

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

That does leave tracker-like software in a bad position.

Although I guess one could lobby the kernel people for an inotify
event when a file is mapped and use it as a kind of a hint that the
file should be revisited at some later point.

Morten





On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015, at 10:49, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > Great plan, but you cannot get that in a meaningful way.  Think
> >
> >     creat
> >     write
> >     mmap
> >     close
> >     # Further writes by way of the mapped region
> >
> > I don't think you can detect the end of that write.
>
>
> Quoting inotify(7):
>
>        The inotify API does not report file accesses and modifications
>        that may
>        occur because of  mmap(2),  msync(2), and munmap(2).
>
> so this is a completely lost cause anyway.
>
> Cheers