[bug #26945] [wishlist] locate-d: dynamic updates using dnotify, inotify or fsnotify

[Paul Wise]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #26945 (project findutils):

I believe fsnotify will allow this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/311850/

If it doesn't, contacting the fsnotify/fanotify author and asking for the
feature might be a good idea.

For inotify it appears that Linux allows the number of watches to be
increased (see the -r option) when the user is root:

http://manpages.debian.net/man/1/inotifywatch

Other kernels have similar things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9657099/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365261(VS.85).aspx

It might be a good idea to look at FAM and gamin to find out how to do this
on various kernels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_alteration_monitor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamin

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