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Re: [fam] FAMAccessed patch

To: Nathan Thompson-Amato <nathan.thompson-amato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [fam] FAMAccessed patch
From: Alex Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:45:13 -0500 (EST)
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Nathan Thompson-Amato wrote:

> Here's a preliminary patch that adds a FAMAccessed event to allow clients 
> to be notified about file reads.  I'd very much like to see something like 
> this rolled into the mainstream FAM, so if anybody has any suggestions for 
> changes that'll let that happen, I'd love to hear about it.

Hmm. This has the potential to easily flood and overflow the signal 
queue. It can also very easily chew up a lot of CPU, since all 
accesses in the filesystem cause fam to rescan it's directories.

What is the reason you want this?

/ Alex


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