From kde-devel Thu Feb 21 00:47:08 2013 From: Aaron Lewis Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:47:08 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: What mechanism does kio notification use? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=136140765707295 Yes, file changes, But weird, inotify clearly supports tmpfs, I double-checked with inotifywait command, but when I do `touch /dev/shm/a`, dolphin wouldn't see that file until I press F5 Running Arch + KDE 4.5.10, 3.7.9 kernel On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Alex Fiestas wrote: >> If what you mean is "file changes/access/" notifications, we use KdirWatch >> which uses inotify (man inotify) > > Thats actually not quite correct, on linux inotify is the default > preferred method for local files. For nfs-files Fam/Gamin is > preferred. And to top it off a user can change the preferred method in > kdeglobals or so. > > On other platforms the methods being used are of course also different. > > Andreas > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << -- Best Regards, Aaron Lewis - PGP: 0xDFE6C29E ( http://keyserver.veridis.com ) Finger Print: 9482 448F C7C3 896C 1DFE 7DD3 2492 A7D0 DFE6 C29E >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<