[Wolves] Monitoring everything

[Aquarius]

Peter Oliver spoo'd forth:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Aquarius wrote:
> 
>> I think it is enough, because FAM can monitor directories, and if you
>> monitor a directory you get notifications of changes, additions, and
>> deletions on files within it for free.
> 
> I don't think so.  Modifing an existing file does not result in any 
> changes to its containing directory.

But you are wrong :)
"FAM was designed to monitor only one level deep. That is, if you 
monitor a directory, FAM will report full details of any files 
changing in that directory, the directory name if a file one level 
one level deeper changed, and nothing if the event occurs deeper 
than that. "
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html#limitations

DNotify doesn't notify of file changes in a directory if all you're
monitoring is the directory, but FAM does, by monitoring the files
itself when notified of directory changes.

>> A thousand directories in your
>> home isn't beyond the realms of possibility (mine contains 9106, 
>> according to 'ls -R $HOME | grep -c "^$HOME.*:$"' -- you may have 
>> a better way of working this out!
> 
> find ~ -type d | wc -l

Smarty pants :) I never thought of -type on find...

Aq.

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