config option for KDirWatch method

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Fri Aug 17 15:29:29 BST 2007


On Wednesday, 8. August 2007, Jos van den Oever wrote:

> Do we leave room for later on switching to central daemon for get file
> change notifications?

Thats what we use kded for. there are not many applications other than kded 
watching a big amount of directories. 

> Inotify has a limit on the number of directories 
> it can watch

wrong. 

> and is generally inefficient.

wrong as well :)

> for all apps. Strigi will e.g. be watching many if not all files in
> someones home directory. A dbus daemon sending signals might be a
> solution here.

I don`t think strigi should be doing that. 


Dirk




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