The main usecase is an editor that needs to 1/ reload resources when they have been modified by an outside application; 2/ see when resources are added or removed.
In other words, watching a directory (recursively) for add/remove/modify changes to files. Which library do you suggest? Cheers, David On 02/07/14 13:19, Mike Hommey wrote: > libnotify != libinotify. You're talking about the former, but you're > thinking about the latter. Note that inotify is not really well suited > for some kinds of directory monitoring (so, depends what you really > need), and is phased out in favor of fanotify. Also note that glib, > which we *do* depend on has a file monitor API, but afaik it's inotify-based > and I don't know how well it overcomes the inotify limitations. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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