Thanks for the help! I will stop working with inotify, and try other
solutions. My hope was that owfs would have some possibility to perform a
custom action when it detects a change.
2014-03-14 15:14 GMT+01:00 Vajk Fekete <vaj...@gmail.com>:
> Yes.
>
> Inotify is integrated on the filesystem level. It captures changes to
> files that happen using the filesystem api.
> With owfs, the files and dirs are not real files. Not even a real
> filesystem. They are presented using fuse. The key is, that most of the
> changes do not happen thru the filesystem front end, but in the back-end.
> Like a temperature changes. Inotify cannot notice this.
>
> Also on a lower level, owfs itself will only notice a new device on the
> bus if it searches for it. And it does not search until you ask it to.
>
> Vajk
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Rob <het.oos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So you mean checking without using inotify?
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-14 14:15 GMT+01:00 Vajk Fekete <vaj...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> afaik owfs will not check the bus until you do an ls (or something
>>> else). so it is not there until you check it. you cannot avoid checking
>>> the folder in an infinite loop.
>>>
>>> Vajk
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Rob <het.oos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to make a punch clock with owfs and iButtons. Therefore I
>>>> want to call a link when a new iButton is put on the reader. When I look at
>>>> the owfs uncached directory, everything works as expected. An iButton is
>>>> detected immediately when put on the reader, and also is the directory of
>>>> the iButton removed immediately after the iButton is removed.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to detect changed on the uncached directory with pyinotify
>>>> (inotify). Unfortunately pyinotify doesn't detect a new directory in the
>>>> owfs (Pynotify detects when I give a ls command from the shell in the
>>>> uncached directory so something is working)
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/owfs/owfs version:
>>>> 2.8p15
>>>> libow version:
>>>> 2.8p15
>>>>
>>>> Is inotify the way to go for doing what I want, or is there a better
>>>> solution?
>>>>
>>>> If owfs should be working with inotify, how do I set owfs up?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
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