Re: Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

[Ian Pilcher]

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> It's not that I am for adding everything inline. That's not a good idea.
> Also, I think a Windows compatibility layer can be forgiven for having
> more dependancies than a personal finance program. This holds especially
> true if non-core windows functionality is only available if the external
> library is available at runtime (i.e. - no fribidi install - no Hebrew
> support in Wine. No CUPS installed - no printing available etc.). I'm
> not sure this holds true to something which is a core Windows function.

That would be the plan.  No FAM header at compile time, no change
notification support (i.e. current behavior); can't load FAM library or
connect to FAM daemon at runtime, no change notification support.

Fw: Re: Filesystem change notifications

[Mike McCormack]

Hi,

Personally, I think it would be better to use fcntl(F_NOTIFY), then 
fallback to FAM and finally no change notification. BSD can allways 
implement it natively too.

Put it this way: if we believe 90% of Wine users are using Linux, and 
%50 of users have FAM, then it would be logical to use F_NOTIFY instead 
of FAM, so that it works for most users with no effort on their half.

Mike

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> That would be the plan.  No FAM header at compile time, no change
> notification support (i.e. current behavior); can't load FAM library or
> connect to FAM daemon at runtime, no change notification support.