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Date:      Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:30:38 -0700
From:      Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   gamin bug (was Re: gamin vs fam)
Message-ID:  <1118010638.80218.5.camel@server.mcneil.com>
In-Reply-To: <1117993795.33641.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1117993395.12774.11.camel@server.mcneil.com> <1117993795.33641.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Although I agree with Mezz that gamin rocks, there is a bug that still
exists with regards to soft symlink directories.

Try this:

cd ~
mkdir dir1
ln -s dir1 dir2

bring up nautilus and look at dir1.

touch dir1/file1

all is perfect.  Now, look at dir2 with nautilus.

touch dir1/file2

never shows.

It would appear that a request to monitor a directory that is a symlink
will not monitor the actual directory it is pointing to.

I think this works with fam.  I seem to remember seeing it do the right
thing.

Cheers,
Sean





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