Re: Idea: Filesystem signals

From: Adam (adams_forum_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 14:48:51 -0700

> Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Adam:
>
> > I'm wondering what people think of following idea. Whenever a file in
> > the computer's filesystem is changed, a signal is sent to all
> > processes. Maybe best is for the signal to include (somehow) the
> > specific file that was modified.
> >
> > Maybe something like this already exists or I'm completely missing
> > something; please tell me about it if so.
>
> Something similar is described in the Linux kernel documentation. Download a
> kernel tar file, extract it, and read (your root dir may vary)
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt

That's great! Thanks! So famd isn't even needed after all.