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To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:53:13 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:59:14 -0400
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> writes:
> That would be the key, wouldn't it?  If one could hook into the
> fileserver to detect mtime changes, one would have the mechanism for
> notification.  Possible?  I should think that the difficult part is to
> stick to the Plan 9 way to do things.

Anything is possible.  You're right that the ultimate challenge is to
keep it in the `Plan 9 way' of doing things.  A way to get out-of-band
notification of interesting file changes would be nice.

	- Dan C.