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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:53:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3877c569deb6f9b6dd7e323ee5a568d6@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeed997883de6ac00c1b53e9476ba020@plan9.escet.urjc.es>

> We tried with a change for fossil to tell about changes, but we
> found that a change (suggested by rsc in the source) to propagate
> mtimes upwards in the tree up to the root made it trivial to learn which
> files changed since the last scan. BTW, our poll is not using that feature.

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.

++L



  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-19 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-19  8:59 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19  9:19 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-04-19 10:06   ` Charles Forsyth
2005-04-19 15:01   ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-19 15:23     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-04-19 15:53       ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2005-04-19 15:59         ` Dan Cross
2005-04-19 16:02     ` Steve Simon
2005-04-19 16:23     ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-19 15:00 ` Ronald G. Minnich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-21  0:37 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-20  2:09 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-20  5:14 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-20 15:06 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-20  2:07 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-20  1:55 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19 10:50 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19  7:13 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19  6:57 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19 10:47 ` Abhey Shah
2005-04-19  6:49 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19  6:50 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-04-19  6:55 ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-19  6:17 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-04-19  6:37 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-04-19  8:35 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros

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