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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:01:49 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Fco. J. Ballesteros wrote:

> But in that case you'd have to poll, don't you?
> Otherwise, what do you do if some process changes the file
> from outside (eg by mounting the fs where the real file stands).
> 
> What am I missing?

I don't think you are missing anything, seems it would be nice to have a 
way to connect to a file server and say "tell me about metadata changes".

ron