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Re: Telling off the Finder

On 27 Nov 2003 19:16:23, Eric Schlegel <email@hidden> wrote:

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

Being completely unaware of kqueue mechanism: does it work without
*any* help from the code that makes modifications (i.e. is it
transparent)?

Mike
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