[maemo-developers] how to tell if files have changed?

[From: Jesse Guardiani]

Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Does maemo have anything like FAM or Gamin that tells us if watched
>> files or dirs have changed?
>>
>> I'm trying to improve Kagu's media scanning capabilities and it seems
>> that the best thing to do would be to get a notification of some sort
>> when a new file arrives, scan it, and act appropriately.
> 
> Don't both of those tools just tell you which files changed between
> subsequent scheduled scans? You still have to waste a buch of disk and
> cpu time on scanning and generating checksums on each file.

Not if the kernel helps out. There are hooks that make the updates
real-time and non-iterative.


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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at guardiani.us