From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:23:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-evchcuptvpvbvfheksotpbrlpp" Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3d84996c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-evchcuptvpvbvfheksotpbrlpp Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --upas-evchcuptvpvbvfheksotpbrlpp Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Tue Apr 19 17:02:24 MDT 2005 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 60EEF191D8 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:02:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id C6EA0191D9 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:01:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00752-01-91 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:01:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (mailwasher.lanl.gov [192.65.95.54]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 03DD8191C4 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:01:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccs-mail.lanl.gov (ccs-mail.lanl.gov [128.165.4.126]) by mailwasher-b.lanl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id j3JF1nMd012360 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:01:50 -0600 Received: from enigma.lanl.gov (enigma.lanl.gov [128.165.250.185]) by ccs-mail.lanl.gov (8.12.11/8.12.11/(ccn-5)) with ESMTP id j3JF1ndb022847 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:01:49 -0600 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:01:49 -0600 (MDT) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] watch command In-Reply-To: <5c3b38580cb3b952f11e4f239b7f4c68@plan9.escet.urjc.es> Message-ID: References: <5c3b38580cb3b952f11e4f239b7f4c68@plan9.escet.urjc.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 4.7.0.111621 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+nemo=lsub.org@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+nemo=lsub.org@cse.psu.edu 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 --upas-evchcuptvpvbvfheksotpbrlpp--