KDirWatcher and dnotify signal problem

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 09 September 2002 18:05, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 09 September 2002 17:02, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > [...]
> >  I changed it to use SIGRTMIN+8 , and added a check for kernel version at
> > least 2.4.18 (that's what I have here, I don't know what's the oldest one
> > working).
>
> sorry, I think that check is wrong; we need >= 2.4.19.
> As in a previous EMail written, I saw a (obviously THE) patch in
> 2.4.19pre3. If you are using Suse 8.0 with 2.4.18: This one already has a
> similar patch for dnotify (look at supplied patches for the Suse kernel).
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 Sorry, I'm not going to check the big bunch of patches, but I trust you :). 
Changed.

 However, I noticed there are still some problems with KDirWatch, e.g. DNotify 
and Stat mode still can report when only a file changed without affecting the 
dir in any way. I'm trying to solve that (I'm afraid it will have to remember 
whole dir listings for it :(  ).

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Lubos Lunak
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