Re: Using glib's g_file_monitor_file and g_file_monitor_directory

[Michael Albinus]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> I am in favor, replacing the existing inotify backend and keeping the
> same API if possible, but there should be a way to avoid polling, even
> disable it by default, and I hope it's asynchronous to some degree.  You
> can imagine how slow polling a ftp connection can be...

As far as I understand the API, polling is started by g_file_monitor_*
only in case there is no native monitoring library, which could do the
job. If you don't monitor an ftp:// mounted file, there's problem. It's up
to you :-)

> Ted

Best regards, Michael.