[Gllug] Smart directories: Cron or fancier

[Nix]

> In Linux, there are two ways that I've heard about for receiving
> notification of changes to the filesystem: dnotify and FAM. FAM may well
> use dnotify and provide a higher level API, I don't know..

That's exactly how recent versions of it work; plus it has an RPC server
so you can monitor the states of files on NFS servers efficiently too.

2.6.x versions are highly likely to poll. (Ick.)

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