On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:04:22PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:23:26PM +0200, Mael Hilléreau wrote: > > Le 5 juin 07 à 19:01, Andre Poenitz a écrit : > > > > >We should use QFileSystemWatcher instead of reinventing the wheel. > > > > FileMonitor class is already written. Do you mean it should it be > > removed?? > > In the long run this certainly would make sense since our homegrown > solution is pretty expensive (checksum of the whole file) compared > to the Qt solution (use system notifications when available, polling > only as fallback).
Can anybody remind me why we use checksums and not modification or access times? Was that the '2 seconds granularity on FAT problem'? Andre'
