According to the manpage of fanotify, « there is no support for create, delete, and move events, » which would make it useless for our scenario.
What kind of drawbacks are you talking about in the case of inotify? The possible race condition that [1] attempts to solve? Are there any build incantations needed to use glib? Thanks, David [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/dashboard-hackers/2004-October/msg00022.html On 02/07/14 15:07, Mike Hommey wrote: > I don't know what the windows and osx file monitoring APIs offer. If > they have the same kind of drawbacks as inotify for recursive directory > monitoring, then it's probably fine to go with inotify, in which case > glib is the best choice, as we already depend on it. > > Otherwise, I'd go with a little shim around the fanotify system calls. > There is fanotify support since glibc 2.13, but I'm not sure that's old > enough for all the systems we support. (our current glibc dependency is > on a version >= 2.7, fwiw) > > Mike > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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