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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdirwatch vs qfilesystemwatcher
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-03-03 1:22:59
Message-ID: 20070303012259.GA16017 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 02.03.07 23:30:39, Marc Espie wrote:
> While updating the qt4 port for OpenBSD, I noticed the new kqueue support
> and activated it.
> 
> Comparing it for kdirwatch, it is currently grossly inefficient on OpenBSD.
> 
> I was wondering, what's the difference between kdirwatch and 
> qfilesystemwatcher ? In newer qt4, it just looks like qfilesystemwatcher
> is doing mostly the same thing in a more efficient way across platforms.

Well, KDirWatch doesn't stop watching files/dirs after they are removed,
it only emits 1 signal for dirs or files regardless wether the file/dir
changed or is removed..

I hope that either of the two gets heavily extended, for example
stopping KDirWatch to watch a specific file (currently it only allows to
stop for a dir), watching a dir should emit signals when  a file is
created or removed with the filename/dirname not just a dirty signal and
the app has to somehow figure out which file/dir was added/removed.

Andreas

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