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> The program that uses the inotify system call has to keep a mapping of file descriptors to paths If it doesn't care what file is modified and just wants to
by problems 10y ago
> The program that uses the inotify system call has to keep a mapping of file descriptors to paths
If it doesn't care what file is modified and just wants to run a command on any change, why would it need to do this?
- oever 10y agoIn that case it's not needed. One could imagine that one would like to start a specific command. That is what 'tup monitor' does. Another use-case is a desktop search tool. http://gittup.org/tup/manual.html http://gittup.org/tup/manual.html