Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> inotify and friends are only spying on local VFS traffic, which in my
>> experience makes them less than useful for most applications.
>
> Aren't they used by most GUI file managers?

For ages, on my Kubuntu machines the usual file managers (Dolphin &
Konqueror) usually fail to notice changes on directories (most
annoyingly, file creation). Dunno if this is a KDE problem or something
about the underlying mechanism.