Follow-up Comment #2, bug #26945 (project findutils): I believe fsnotify will allow this:
http://lwn.net/Articles/311850/ If it doesn't, contacting the fsnotify/fanotify author and asking for the feature might be a good idea. For inotify it appears that Linux allows the number of watches to be increased (see the -r option) when the user is root: http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/inotifywatch Other kernels have similar things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9657099/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365261(VS.85).aspx It might be a good idea to look at FAM and gamin to find out how to do this on various kernels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_alteration_monitor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamin _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26945> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
