[Samba] Problem to detect changes in directory

sebastien Pastor spastor at center.com
Tue Nov 22 01:55:47 GMT 2005


Thanks Jeremy for the info ! I guess i ll wait 3.0.22 to give another 
shot ;) and a big thanks  for the good work to you and the samba Team!

Seb


Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:51:35AM +0100, sebastien Pastor wrote:
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>>Ok i guess i found out. Samba would do only Directory Changes 
>>notification but not File Changes notification.Meaning it returns only 
>>the fact that "something" has changed in the folder and not "this file" 
>>has changed. i guess my transcoder software is expecting the latter ...
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>>Can anyone confirm me this limitation in samba ?
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>Yes this is a limitation in Samba. I have a patch to fix this
>that's (shamefully) being sitting in my inbox for about a year...
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>I'm intending to add in support for Linux inotify with this patch
>for probably the 3.0.22 release (it's too invasive for 3.0.21
>right now).
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>Jeremy.
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