gamin bug (was Re: gamin vs fam)

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:30:38 -0700
Sean McNeil <sean at mcneil.com> wrote:

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

Two bugs, actually. One in FAM, and one in Nautilus. But none in Gamin.

> 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.

>From gam_kqueue.c:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0650&db=bks&fname=/SGI_Developer/books/IIDsktp_IG/sgi_html/ch08.html
states that FAM does not follow monitored symbolic links: we do the
same (note that regarding http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=405,
we do what FAM should do: we do not call g_dir_open() if the file is
a symbolic link).

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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