Date: 20 Feb 2001 16:13:03 -0500 From: Randell Jesup <rjesup@wgate.com> To: "Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> Cc: <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: modifying config files for a running daemon Message-ID: <ybuelwt2h40.fsf@jesup.eng.tvol.net.jesup.eng.tvol.net> In-Reply-To: "Jonathan Graehl"'s message of "Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:48:19 -0800" References: <NCBBLOALCKKINBNNEDDLMEECDLAA.jonathan@graehl.org>
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"Jonathan Graehl" <jonathan@graehl.org> writes:
>Is there any way to be sure of receiving a change notification only after the
>writer has closed the file?
At the moment, I don't think so, since there's no change
notification. Certainly it wouldn't be tough to create a protocol/API that
provided that functionality, at least if you can guarantee that the writer
uses the protocol, or by use of a special pseudo-fs, etc. Since a
change-notification protocol/API would need to be defined anyways, there
wouldn't be a problem including this. I believe that the support for file
notification in the Amiga ramdisk notified on close of a modified file
(I've lost too many neurons to be sure).
Providing it on an arbitrary FS _without_ requiring the writer to
use the defined protocol would be quite a hairy change to make, of course.
--
Randell Jesup, Worldgate Communications, ex-Scala, ex-Amiga OS team ('88-94)
rjesup@wgate.com
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