Status of gconf -> dconf

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 10:09 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Simo Sorce <ssorce at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:47 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:33:56 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >>
> >> > When you have multiple applications/processes that need to be notified
> >> > of a change ?
> >>
> >> You'd need a daemon for that, anyway. The on-disk data format is
> >> irrelevant for that question I think.
> >
> > Can be done with a file, although a daemon might be easier/more
> > efficient.
> >
> inotify does not work over NFS though, if the change is made remotely?

In that case you have to poll at regular intervals indeed, but I think
CIFS at least supports something like dnotify, not sure that would help
at all.

Simo.

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