Re: What mechanism does kio notification use?

2013-02-20 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 12:07:40 Aaron Lewis wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I noticed that kio doesn't send file notification for tmpfs, > i.e /dev/shm, > > So I wonder what mechanism does kio use for file notifications? I mean > the backend What exactly do you mean with notification? If what y

Re: What mechanism does kio notification use?

2013-02-20 Thread Andreas Pakulat
Hi, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: > If what you mean is "file changes/access/" notifications, we use KdirWatch > which uses inotify (man inotify) Thats actually not quite correct, on linux inotify is the default preferred method for local files. For nfs-files Fam/Gamin is

Re: What mechanism does kio notification use?

2013-02-20 Thread Aaron Lewis
Yes, file changes, But weird, inotify clearly supports tmpfs, I double-checked with inotifywait command, but when I do `touch /dev/shm/a`, dolphin wouldn't see that file until I press F5 Running Arch + KDE 4.5.10, 3.7.9 kernel On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > Hi, > > On