[arch-general] inotify and locate

[Calvin Morrison]

It is only for Linux. That was my barrier. It has no portability to Mac or
BSDs. It is a great tool and really comes in handy.

There is an package called inotify-tools that does some basic watching.
I've used it in the past.

Calvin
On Feb 26, 2012 6:50 AM, "Andrea Crotti" <andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system for
> Linux.
> Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up watchers on
> the filesystem,
> so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb?
>
> Are there other problems with the inotify approach maybe or just lack of
> developer interest?
>