Subj : Re: Idea: Filesystem signals
To   : comp.os.linux
From : adams_forum
Date : Sat Aug 28 2004 03:48 pm

> Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Adam:
> 
> > I'm wondering what people think of following idea.  Whenever a file in
> > the computer's filesystem is changed, a signal is sent to all
> > processes.  Maybe best is for the signal to include (somehow) the
> > specific file that was modified.
> >
> > Maybe something like this already exists or I'm completely missing
> > something; please tell me about it if so.
> 
> Something similar is described in the Linux kernel documentation.  Download a
> kernel tar file, extract it, and read (your root dir may vary)
> 
>    /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt

That's great!  Thanks!  So famd isn't even needed after all.

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