That does leave tracker-like software in a bad position. Although I guess one could lobby the kernel people for an inotify event when a file is mapped and use it as a kind of a hint that the file should be revisited at some later point.
Morten On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Ryan Lortie <de...@desrt.ca> wrote: > hi, > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015, at 10:49, Morten Welinder wrote: >> Great plan, but you cannot get that in a meaningful way. Think >> >> creat >> write >> mmap >> close >> # Further writes by way of the mapped region >> >> I don't think you can detect the end of that write. > > > Quoting inotify(7): > > The inotify API does not report file accesses and modifications > that may > occur because of mmap(2), msync(2), and munmap(2). > > so this is a completely lost cause anyway. > > Cheers _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
