path-based filesystem watch limitation

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:39, Amy Griffis wrote:
> But the point of path-based watching is to watch a particular
> location.

I would agree with this. If the admin wanted to watch a specific 
path/file...it should honor it. To move the file is really renaming the file. 
But the watch is still desired. In practice, though, it doesn't cause 
problems. I don't know of any trusted app that renames a directory and 
creates a new data file. There could be user defined watches that might have 
problems with the current behavior, though.

There is also no way to specify that you want to watch a file on an unmounted 
partition or non-existing directory. Just thought I'd bring this up too. Not 
really needed, though.

-Steve