inotify-enabled apps [was: inotail]

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:56:09PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:

 > Dave, I believe you misunderstood. This is not actually a cron
 > replacement. Instead, it allows you to trigger actions on filesystem
 > modifications. E.g. we could get rid of all the ugly
 > gtk-update-icon-cache calls in package %posts and instead have incron
 > monitor /usr/share/icons/* and trigger the icon cache update in that
 > way.

Indeed, this does actually sound like it could be useful for a number of things.

		Dave

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