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Re: [fam] refcounting.....

To: rusty@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [fam] refcounting.....
From: raster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:12:40 -0800 (PST)
Cc: rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fam@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On 30 Mar, Rusty Ballinger scribbled:
->  > ie - if i ask fam to monitor a directory twice does it wait till i ask
->  > it twice to stop monitoring? (just wondering as i'm writign my
->  > abstraction layer right now and i wodner if i need to refcount watches
->  > myself) als will it send 1 or 2 changed events if i asked twice? hmmm i
->  > guess it will send 2 - one per famrequest id right? thats a guess.. :)
->  
->  Yeah, I just tried the little test program, and if you ask it to monitor
->  the same directory twice, you get two events for each file.  When you
->  ask it to stop monitoring, I think that's done per fam-request too, so
->  you'd have to ask it to stop monitoring twice as well.

just makign sure... :) that means i have to really refcoutn AND keep
track of per req id... yay! :) thank god it works ok :)

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