Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #1432


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2011-07-17T02:21:50Z (14 years ago)
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davidsarah
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  • Ticket #1432

    • Property Keywords bsd added
    • Property Summary changed from drop-upload on Mac OS X to drop-upload on Mac OS X and other BSDs

  • Ticket #1432 – Description

    initial v1  
    1 The drop-upload feature (#1429) uses inotify to detect filesystem changes, and therefore works only on Linux. This ticket is about supporting the same feature on Mac OS X, probably using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents fsevents]. However, fsevents does not give notifications of which files have changed, so the implementation will have to scan the directory and look at last-modified times to determine that. (This is occasionally also necessary for correctness on Linux; see #1430.)
     1The drop-upload feature (#1429) uses inotify to detect filesystem changes, and therefore works only on Linux. This ticket is about supporting the same feature on Mac OS X and possibly other BSD-based operating systems. Mac OS X has the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents fsevents], and all BSDs including Mac OS X have kqueue/kevent. If I understand correctly, neither fsevents nor kqueue/kevent give notifications of which files have changed, so the implementation will have to scan the directory and look at last-modified times to determine that. (This is occasionally also necessary for correctness on Linux; see #1430.)