nautilus used to do open()'s each time you made an action - which changed the atime. Nautilus already uses fam in the file navigation - just create a file from the command line and watch the icon appear instant in the window. However, they're still continuously stat'ing mtab. So they're using fam in some place and not in others. How can you stat /proc/mount and test for a change since the times aren't maintained on a /proc fs? However you can test for a filesize change if they preserved the last file size - which they do the last mtime. So if that don't want to use fam, they could poll /proc/mount with stat and test for a size change. Makes you wonder why /etc/mtab even exists nowadays. -eric wood On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:06, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I haven't used fam before, but that would likely cause the desktop > device icons to stop working if it were turned off. I'm for it, since > it's consistent with what they're already doing, but using fstat() > rather than stat(), or stat() on /proc/mounts will work, too.
