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inotify

Posted Jul 23, 2006 17:51 UTC (Sun) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: inotify by nix
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

in practice you must build something which tests for inotify at runtime and falls back to dnotify or even polling.[...]However, this is perfectly doable.

Yes, but I'm afraid this is way above the avarage application programmer's level.

Bye,NAR


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inotify

Posted Jul 23, 2006 17:55 UTC (Sun) by cventers (subscriber, #31465) [Link]

True, but this is something that should be part of the desktop
infrastructure, not a part of every application. Most application
programmers wouldn't have a lot of fun with Xlib either, but someone's got
to do it...

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