Re: incron not seeing IN_CLOSE_WRITE?

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 01:24:23PM +1100, David Ward wrote:
> I will check when I get to work. I am pretty sure I use IN_MODIFY in my
> setup at work.
> The setup is a client NFS mounts a share off a server, drops in a file
> with its hostname as the file name. The server than runs a script with
> that file/hostname.

I'm not sure if NFS insulates you from it, but my understanding of the
difference between IN_MODIFY and IN_CLOSE_WRITE is that an IN_MODIFY event
is emitted for each and every write that hits the filesystem. So let's say a
large file is being copied between systems, and you're watching that file on
the destination system. You'll see numerous IN_MODIFY events. If you copied
the file based on one of them, you wouldn't get the entire file.

That's the beauty of IN_CLOSE_WRITE. You know the file that has been
modified, is now closed.

I think I've managed to answer my own question elsewhere in this thread as
to why I was seeing the behaviour that I was seeing.

regards

Andrew
Received on Tue Jun 05 2012 - 22:14:21 CEST