Call for help on inotify replacement for non-Linux

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 03 March 2008 18:12:35 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 17:58:42 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > On Monday 03 March 2008 17:31:47 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > > For nepomuk I implemented a kded module that monitors file operations
> > > like rename and delete and updates the metadata accordingly. The
> > > problem is that it depends on inotify which is linux-only. Sadly I
> > > cannot use KFileWatch since I need move signals that include both the
> > > source and the dest URL.
> > >
> > > Question is: how can this be implemented for WIN or MAC and can we
> > > extend KDirWatch to emit these signals and who can help with that?
> >
> > How about the systems where inotify is not present, like older Linux, or
> > Solaris or the BSDs?
>
> exactly. How can it be handled there?

Using QFileSystemWatcher. On the BSDs, you'll need to use kqueue. On Solaris, 
I have no idea.

> > Why didn't you use QFileSystemWatcher? Or instead extend KDirWatch like
> > you needed it to?
>
> That is exactly what I am asking about: extending KDirWatch. I just would
> like some help with that. At the time when I implemented it, it was way
> faster to get it running with inotify than to understand KDirWatch
> completely. Especially since then I would have had to implement the stuff
> for non-inotify systems, too.

That sounds like reimplementing both QFileSystemWatcher and KDirWatch.

Best option here is to fold your modifications into KDirWatch and write the 
necessary implementations for other systems.


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