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sr #103486: What filesystem action causes ON_CLOSED_MODIFIED to be true?

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Submitted:  Mon 18 Oct 2004 11:07:23 AM UTC
   
 
Assigned to:  ogman Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 12 Apr 2007 08:18:38 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Although still listed as an avaiable event, ON_CLOSE_MODIFIED events will never be generated. These events are simply too unreliable. A future Dazuko version will completely remove this event type.

John Ogness <ogman>
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Mon 18 Oct 2004 12:56:40 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

You are interpretting ON_CLOSE_MODIFIED correctly. However, this event does not always work correctly under Linux 2.2/2.4. For example, redirects do not work correctly. However, if you edit the file using an editor, this should trigger the event under Linux 2.2/2.4. ON_CLOSE_MODIFIED does not work at all under Linux 2.6.

Under FreeBSD 4 and 5 this event works very well (even with redirects). This is because the FreeBSD version hooks more system calls that could result in file modification (such as dup() and dup2()). However, even the FreeBSD version still needs to do more for "perfect" support of this event. It is on my TaskList to port these improvements from FreeBSD over to the Linux version.

Note that this event is by default not supported. If you want this event, you must configure Dazuko with "--enable-event-close-modified". This event also introduces extra overhead in the kernel because it looks at individual write() events (this is why it is not supported by default). It is also off by default because the event is not yet "mature".

John Ogness <ogman>
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Mon 18 Oct 2004 11:07:23 AM UTC, original submission:  

Pardon me, but does editing a file and then saving it out or appending to the end of a file '>>' qualify for ON_CLOSED_MODIFIED or am I taking this to literally.

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