> > There has been some work done on symlink monitoring but eventually we > > found out it is too expensive and never committed the code upstream. > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536172 > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546954 > > > > Interesting, this sounds cool. I am surprised however that in the case > of 546954 using inotify is too expensive. I would have thought the > only expense is handling the signal and refreshing the view and there > wouldn't be an overhead when symlinks aren't being modified. Is this > not true? Perhaps I don't understand inotify fully.
I would guess that systems not having inotify support would have to use the other slow method in order to behave the same, which was considered beeing to slow. Stian Skjelstad -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
