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Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:53:13 +0200
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> 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