On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:44:10PM +0800, zw g wrote: > Dear List, > > > Is the 'auto_update' feature of MPD available on Mac OS X? > > >From my testing, it does work on my Linux box, but failed on Mac OS X. > It's a really nice feature, i miss it after i switched to my Mac. > > And one more step, is it available on Windows? > > If both not, is there any trick to do that? > I really love that.
AFAIK, auto_update is as of now only supported through inotify, which is a Linux interface. Both Mac OS X[1] and Windows[2] seem to have interfaces to get file system notifications, and glib also has an interface (GFileMonitor[3]) that might work on all three major operating systems. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents_h/ [2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365261%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [3] http://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GFileMonitor.html HTH, Jonathan Neuschäfer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
