[Mono-list] possible bug with FileSystemWatcher

[Alex Mac]

On 03/10/06, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at ximian.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I'm trying to monitor /dev using the FileSystemWatcher however my app
> > seems to hang at the point when i call "watcher.IncludeSubdirectories
> > = true" without that line the code runs fine. Monitoring /tmp with
> > that option turned on does work...
> >
> > Also if i try running the code with "MONO_MANAGED_WATCHER=1" then I
> > get the following error message continuously appearing:
>
> One of the problems that we ran into while trying to debug this problem
> is that it seems that /dev/fd/6 is a symlink that points to a
> non-existant file called "inotify"
>
> The file is special in that if you access /dev/fd/6 you get a valid file
> handle, reporting that its a directory, but if you try to follow the
> symlink you get a failure (because "inotify" does not exist).
>
> We are quite puzzled about this, not sure quite what to do, because Mono
> determines that we have a directory, and when we look for it, it tells
> us that its not a directory.
>
> Miguel.
>

I dont have /dev/fd/6 on my system but I guess there must be other
"special" dev files...

Really I'm just interested in monitoring /dev/dvb but since the FSW
cant handle monitoring a directory that might not currently exist I
have to monitor /dev recursively.

I guess I'll have to just use two watchers one for /dev and one for
/dev/dvb when it appears, which is a bit lame.