GFileMonitor takes great care to sample the thread-default main context
at the time that it is created in order that events can be dispatched to
the correct thread when they come in.
The inotify GFileMonitor implementation uses a global file descriptor
shared between all watches. It has to poll this file descriptor from
somewhere so it arbitrarily picks the default main context.
The problem with that is that the user might not be running it.
Let's use the GLib worker thread for this instead. It's guaranteed to
be running if you need it, and this is exactly the sort of problem it
was meant to solve.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704873
This patch makes GFileMonitor to emit EVENT_CHANGES_DONE_HINT when
EVENT_CREATED is emitted but the file is not opened for writing.
On file moves across different mounted volumes, inotify will always emit
IN_CREATE and IN_CLOSE_WRITE (plus other events).
This translates into GIO's _EVENT_CREATED and _EVENT_CHANGES_DONE_HINT.
On file moves across the same mounted volumes, inotify will emit
IN_MOVED_FROM/IN_MOVED_TO which will be translated into
_EVENT_DELETED/_EVENT_CREATED GIO's side. No _EVENT_CHANGES_DONE_HINT is
emited afterwards.
Under such circumstances a file indexer does not know when actually the
file is ready to be indexed, either waiting too much or triggering the
indexing twice. On small devices it's not advisable.
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640077
Bug-NB: NB#219982
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Bzatek <tbzatek@redhat.com>
This adds support for G_FILE_MONITOR_SEND_MOVED events when requested by
the user to the inotify backend. Last part to fix bug #547890.
Based heavily on a patch by Martyn Russel <martyn@lanedo.com>.
2008-01-21 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
* inotify/Makefile.am:
* inotify/inotify-helper.c:
* inotify/inotify-kernel.c:
* inotify/inotify-path.c:
* inotify/local_inotify.h: Removed.
* inotify/local_inotify_syscalls.h: Removed.
Removed the included copies of the inotify
headers. We now only use the <sys/inotify.h>
header which exists on modern systems.
This fixes problems on ARM and SH5 (#510448)
but is also generally much cleaner and future
safe. For instance, if other OSes add support
for inotify it should "just work".
svn path=/trunk/; revision=6338
2007-11-26 Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
* Makefile.am:
* configure.in:
* gio-2.0-uninstalled.pc.in:
* gio-2.0.pc.in:
* gio-unix-2.0-uninstalled.pc.in:
* gio-unix-2.0.pc.in:
* gio/
* docs/reference/gio
Merged gio-standalone into glib.
* glib/glibintl.h:
* glib/gutils.c:
Export glib_gettext so that gio can use it
Add P_ (using same domain for now)
Add I_ as g_intern_static_string
svn path=/trunk/; revision=5941
