Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 23:38:51 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> To: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gamin fails to monitor symlink directory Message-ID: <20050428233851.581c3fc3.jylefort@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1114412008.81566.5.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1114412008.81566.5.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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--Signature=_Thu__28_Apr_2005_23_38_51_+0200_ej5NJ_W85_6X6cv5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:53:28 -0700 Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> wrote: > I did the following on a 5.4-STABLE system and all the most recent > ports: >=20 > 1) I created a symlink on my gnome desktop to /users. > 2) Opened the directory in nautilus. > 3) in a gnome-terminal, I typed "touch /users/ttt". >=20 > The nautilus view never updates. If I navigate through nautilus to the > actual directory (in Filesystem -> users), then it works as expected. >=20 > /users is a mount point >=20 > /dev/ad6s1d 180G 46G 120G 28% /users The kqueue Gamin backend purposedly does not follow symbolic links (see the first note on top of /usr/ports/devel/gamin/files/patch-server_gam_kqueue.c). The fact that Nautilus asks GnomeVFS to monitor symbolic links when it really wants to monitor their target is a Nautilus bug. I suggest you file a Nautilus bug report on bugzilla.gnome.org (please add me to the cc list). --=20 Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@FreeBSD.org http://lefort.be.eu.org/ --Signature=_Thu__28_Apr_2005_23_38_51_+0200_ej5NJ_W85_6X6cv5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCcVfryzD7UaO4AGoRAk+aAJ4rCbTdU/zTYHv+xkUlBxUIuUGjHwCfR6Ma uLsKbJGWYZhbkvM3QHnsADc= =68VN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__28_Apr_2005_23_38_51_+0200_ej5NJ_W85_6X6cv5--
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