Re: File change notification (enhanced dnotify)

[Horst von Brand]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger_Klaehn?= <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I am working on a mechanism to let programs watch for file system 
> changes in large directory trees or on the whole system. Since my last 
> post in january I have been trying various approaches.

How do you propose to handle the fact that there are changes to _files_,
which happen to be pointed to by entries in directories? There is no
"change in the directory tree" in Unix...
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