Re: FAM based fswatcher - first try

[Philippe Roussel]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:27:05PM +0200, Enrico Sersale wrote:
> The original fswatcher doesn't create a new Watcher object if there already 
> is one for a path beeing added; it adds only a "listener", that is, it 
> increments a counter. When, removing all listeners, the counter becomes 0, 
> the Watcher object is removed from the watchers array.

In this case, a Watcher keeps a NSCountedSet of clients/listeners. If
you call fswatcher 10 times with the same path, a single watcher (with
a single FAM request) will be created, modulo bugs of course.

> '--daemon' is not intended to be used from the command line; it is only an 
> internal way to create a daemon using only NSTask instead of fork(); many 
> GNUstep daemons does this; gdnc, gpbs, etc.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

Philippe
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