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Re: Telling off the Finder

Subject: Re: Telling off the Finder
From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:16:23 -0800

On Nov 25, 2003, at 7:59 AM, Mike Kluev wrote:

I can't see how they would implement a direct API without, at some point,
having this API internally passing an AppleEvent or something similar to the
Finder...

The guys in Redmond figured that out in '95 with their
xxxChangeNotification functions that allow to monitor directories.
This works without *any* help from the code that makes modifications
(i.e. no need to call "notify", no need to send events, etc).
Hopefully we will see this on Mac in this millennium.

Panther supports the kqueue mechanism at the BSD API level, which can be used for file-system change notification. The Finder team didn't have time to adopt it for Panther, but I think they're interested in using it in the future.

-eric
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