Package: incron Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: wishlist
Incron exhibits somewhat inconsistent behavior in that it tracks files by inode (I assume) but these files are specified by path in the incrontab. So, if you delete a file and re-create it, as some commonly used editors do as part of the editing process, the file is no longer tracked -- until incrond is restarted or (I assume) the incrontab file is modified at which point the (new) file is again tracked. This 'impedance mismatch' is a bit odd. I assume this is the intended design. It is the behavior I observe. If nothing else a note of this issue should be made in the documentation. It would be nice if incron had a new symbol, say IN_TRACK_PATH, that keeps the tracking associated with the pathname given in the config file. I assume this could be done by monitoring the parent directory for changes and watching for the file name to come into existence, the name of the file to change, etc. I would think that the desire to track changes to a file that exists in a particular filesystem location is rather common. Absent this feature it's up to the user to repeatedly script such things. Note that such a change alters the meaning of existing symbols, e.g., changing the file name would be equivalent to deleting the file, etc. I don't know whether it makes sense to re-use the existing symbols in this new context or to come up with entirely new ones. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages incron depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip incron recommends no packages. incron suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
