From kde-devel  Wed Oct 27 21:20:38 2004
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:20:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: DNS based service discovery
Message-Id: <200410272320.39250.faure () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:02, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 October 2004 20:14, Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> > For the last month I have been working on DNS based service discovery
> > (ZeroConf, Rendezvous) for KDE. You can get it from kdenonbeta/kdnssd.
> Sounds cool.
> 
> > - dynamic updates for dnssd:/ ioslave - just like local directories are
> > updated by KDirWatch. This is big job because it requires to rewrite
> > KDirWatch to support other protocols.
> 
> This is the wrong place: KDirWatch is only for real files (local and mounted 
> from remote e.g. via NFS).
> 
> You need to enhance the IO-Slave protocol for notifications: If an IO-Slave 
> supports notifications, directory listings can last infinitely, and file 
> changes/adding/removing are signaled while the listDir-Job is running.

That's one way to implement it.

Another one - which is already available - is to use KDirNotify to emit DCOP 
signals saying "things have changed in this directory, please relist it".

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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