KDirWatch emitting dirty signal many times for one change

[Josef Weidendorfer]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 12:42, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Oops. I stand corrected. Then adding a signal fileRenamed() to KDirWatch
> > should be the way to go with KDE 3.3.
>
> I don't see how you would be able to do that. KDirWatch has not enough
> information for that, KDirLister might be able to, but not KDirWatch.

KDirWatch is only an interface to deliver file change notifications from the 
OS. Even if there currently is no implementation that can notify about 
renames, it makes some sense that the interface can forward this kind of 
notification.
The FAM interface has rename notification, which could simply be forwarded by 
KDirWatch. Of course it is quite possible that the FAM daemon on linux never 
generates this kind of notification.
Unfortunately, the DN_RENAME notification of DNOTIFY doesn't make much sense, 
as the information is missing which file in a directory was renamed ;-(

Another question: Could KDirWatch catch rename notifications from KDirLister?

Josef