Hello,
That's pretty interesting. I'm having a look as well to the package fam
(from SGI), suggested on this list as well. There are RPMs and SRPMs on
rpmfind.net.
My goal as web developer is to indicate an interest on a directory and if
a given user upload a picture to it, fire a program / script to downsizing,
rename it, etc, etc. I would need to port this as well to Mac OS X, so it
should be somehow open and portable... Now I'm trying to use Perl +
ImageMagick + PerlMagick to do this and using cron to check every minute or
so if new files were uploaded. But, as you said, polling is not the best way
around...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Regards,
Tomás
> Hi Tomás,
>
> Sometime early this year, I saw a presentation about this feature being
> introduced into the kernel. The idea is that apps like top, samba, Konqueror
> can indicate an interest in a file/directory and then sleep. They would then
> be woken by a signal by the kernel when appropriate.
>
> This would make the current inefficient polling method uneccessary.
>
> I don't know when this is going to make it into a release kernel, but if
> you're looking at a long term project it may be worth looking into.
>
> Gary
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Bigital
http://bigital.com/
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