On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:09 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Simo Sorce <ssorce(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:47 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:33:56 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>
>> > When you have multiple applications/processes that need to be notified
>> > of a change ?
>>
>> You'd need a daemon for that, anyway. The on-disk data format is
>> irrelevant for that question I think.
>
> Can be done with a file, although a daemon might be easier/more
> efficient.
>
inotify does not work over NFS though, if the change is made remotely?
In that case you have to poll at regular intervals indeed, but I think
CIFS at least supports something like dnotify, not sure that would help
at all.
Simo.
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