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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:02:34 +0100
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command
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> 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".

Windows does this.
 
I wanted to do this too, I considered making read(2)s beyond the end
of a directory block the calling process until any file in that
directory is modified.

I decided this is too nasty and added a synthetic event file instead.
This was fine as I had only a small heirarchy to serve not the general
one of a "real" file server.

-Steve