inotify and FSEvents...

[James Lan]

Watchdog is a module provides fs notification functionality but not hgext.
As far as I know, inotify ext has other issues to be cross-platformed, such
as unix domain socket. I'm considering  to implement a module to support
that for windows...

Regards,
James
On May 14, 2012 6:56 PM, "Alain Leufroy" <alain.leufroy at logilab.fr> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 14 May 2012, James Lan wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Does this mean that there will be a cross platform inotify ext shipped
> with 2.3?
>
> There is a funny project like that: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/watchdog
> >
> > Regards,
> > James Lan
> >
> > On May 12, 2012 9:17 PM, "Jason Harris" <jason at jasonfharris.com> wrote:
> >       In the 2.3 Sprint we are talking about underlying notification. In
> OSX notification is through FSEvents:
> >
> >       Couple of points with FSEvent watching:
> >       - Updates within a single directory are coalesced.  But all
> touched directories are
> >       reported.  (Mads was correct here.)
> >       - It looks like you can create FSEvents watchers which will report
> all changes to files as
> >       well:
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents_h/index.html#//apple_ref/c/tag/FSEventStreamCreateFlags
> >       This flag is unfortunately new to 10.7 and Mercurial should likely
> still support 10.6 (Snow Leopard
> >       if not 10.5 Leopard....)
> >
> >       For info on FSEvents see:
> >        http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5/7/
> >
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/FSEvents_Ref/FSEvents_h/
> >
> >       - Spotlight works by having a fsevents daemon record to a
> compressed log file which
> >        directories are changed.  Then spotlight will examine this log at
> it's leisure to figure
> >        out what it needs to rescan...
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