From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8068 invoked by alias); 3 May 2018 14:03:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6600 invoked by uid 89); 3 May 2018 14:03:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=lee, Lee, principal X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.73) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 May 2018 14:03:29 +0000 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E9847C6B0 for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 14:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.120.174] (ovpn-120-174.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.120.174]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9342166BAD for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 14:03:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: inotify? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20180503093514.GA31178@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <3fd715eb-7048-c0bf-c82d-8ed5d7c508cb@gmail.com> From: Eric Blake Message-ID: <13512e19-c1c0-9c8f-aca1-6549bdb1a9e4@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 14:03:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3fd715eb-7048-c0bf-c82d-8ed5d7c508cb@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-05/txt/msg00040.txt.bz2 On 05/03/2018 05:36 AM, Richard H Lee wrote: > On 03/05/2018 10:35, Ulli Horlacher wrote: >> Is there a similar service "tell me of new files in this directory tree" >> in Windows which I can use instead? > Windows does have its own file and directory watching API. And patches to make Cygwin support inotify_init() and friends implemented on top of the Windows native API are certainly welcome. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple