Re: Any way to prevent reloading of running watches when adding to crontab?

Hi,
there is currently no way how to do it. The only workaround (for system
tables) is to add a brand new table. It will use a new file descriptor
and won't affect the existing ones. But the appropriate feature would be
implemented in the future versions. I will create a request for it into
the BTS.

Lukas

> Hi there,
>
> Is there any way to add new watches to the incrontab and load them
> without re-arming existing watches?
>
> I'm using incron with IN_NO_LOOP so that the watches are not triggered
> again while the script is running.
>
> This suits my use case as I'm really watching for the start of an
> "event" in a list of directories which normally involves lots of files
> hitting it in short order. The script then processes this "event" and
> only exits when complete, re-arming the watch in the process.
>
> This all works fine, however, if I add a new watch and there are
> existing events in progress, the watches all trigger again.
>
> To be clear, I only want the script to run when the FIRST file lands,
> not with each subsequent file (until the called script ends).
>
> Now, I can build some complexities into my own code to somehow check
> for any in-progress events pertaining to that particular directory,
> but, I was just wondering if there is any way to handle this from
> within incron?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Euan.
>
>
Received on Tue Jun 05 2012 - 22:14:21 CEST