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"This is, by necessity, a system-wide process." This is, by design, a fucking huge defect of the underlying system calls. Give the OS a list of folders to wat
by chinathrow 12y ago
"This is, by necessity, a system-wide process."
This is, by design, a fucking huge defect of the underlying system calls.
Give the OS a list of folders to watch. Dropbox should not even get a callback for a file it's not is supposed to watch.
- raverbashing 12y agoSee: inotify in Linux
- krakensden 12y agoinotify is by far the best of the filesystem notification APIs. It's wildly reasonable.
- kevingadd 12y agoYou can constrain filesystem callbacks on Windows, I have no idea why Dropbox doesn't.
- r00fus 12y agoExactly - how much information can be inferred from the file and path alone - in a lot of my cases (for very personal files), quite a lot. If Dropbox gets to interpose itself in every file update systemwide, that sounds like it's getting too much of my information. Encrypted/Stego drives don't matter - once you open it up to the system, Dropbox sees when you touch it. All I can gather from this discussion is that I'm glad I'm not using Windows and Dropbox together.