KDirWatch emitting dirty signal many times for one change

[Josef Weidendorfer]

On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18:07, Matthias Kretz wrote:
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> I don't know if this could work, but in KDirWatchPrivate::famEventReceived
> there's a loop over all pending FAM events. Wouldn't it be possible to save
> the events into a list (or perhaps a map) and for every event check whether
> it already exists. Then all duplicates should be gone and you can start
> iterating over the list and emitting the signals.
> If this doesn't fix it perhaps the iteration over the list can be done
> after a short time so that more incoming FAM events can be checked for
> duplicates.

That doesn't fix the problem with change events occuring when you have added a 
file watch again after saving the file: The latency of the event could be 
quite long. The best is to start a rescan timer on FAM events similar to 
DNOTIFY events.
Can you check out the attached patch?

Josef

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