[Mono-dev] FileSystemWatcher on Linux

[pablosantosluac at terra.es]

Andrés,

I'm interested on using Inotify to actually track moves and renames (not 
exactly the way in which FileSystemWatcher works now).

I see at ReadEvent implementation that the fields are actually composed 
"manually" (I mean, reading byte by byte and handling big and little 
endian issues) instead of using a binary reader... is there a reason for 
that?

Also, why "cookie" is skipped? It can help tracking moves

Thanks

pablo

Andrés G. Aragoneses escribió:
> Hey Pablo, do a quick search on bugzilla, there are some open bugs about
> FSW, maybe you're facing them ;)
>
> 	Andrés
>
> pablosantosluac at terra.es wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's a variable in InotifyWatcher named new_name_needed which is not 
>> used since revision 63309 and avoids "renames" to work correctly.
>>
>> When a move a file (rename) I get a "moved_from" and "moved_to" pair of 
>> events, but they are not correctly processed since "moved_to" always 
>> have "new_name_needed" to false.
>>
>> pablosantosluac at terra.es escribió:
>>     
>>> Ok, a bit of more info
>>>
>>> I set the "directory" to be /home/pablo but I'm only getting "rename" 
>>> notifications *inside* /home/pablo/somethingelse, never when the ops are 
>>> directly in /home/pablo
>>>
>>> I'll take a look at the code
>>>
>>> pablo
>>>
>>> pablosantosluac at terra.es escribió:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running a test with FileSystemWatcher on linux. My problem is:
>>>>
>>>> - I never get "rename" events but "removed" and "added" event pairs
>>>>
>>>> - I also get a huge number of "modified" events for files I think no one 
>>>> is touching (I'm seeing that on a huge number of source files on my 
>>>> workspace, files that are not being edited (unless they're being acessed 
>>>> by "beagle" ... :-P, so just forget about this one)
>>>>
>>>> Also, one question: Inotify is able to *correctly* report moved files, 
>>>> isn't it? I mean, not like on windows where the *sad* FileSystemWatcher 
>>>> implementation is not able to track moved files, right? So, wouldn't it 
>>>> be better to modify the InotifyWatcher implementation to correctly fill 
>>>> moved events (I know it won't be the *standard* way, but it would be 
>>>> better, wouldn't it?)
>>>>
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