Naturally, famd (seems to, IANAP) only report changes for the canonical directory. So if I open ~/pictures and ~/filestore/pictures (the first being a symlink to the second), I can make changes in ~/pictures and see the updates in ~/filestore/pictures, but if I do anything in ~/filestore/pictures I don't see the updates in ~/pictures. I guess Nautilus asks for events for the current directory, but doesn't check if the current directory is a symlink. In such an event, it should do the right thing and monitor the canonical path for the current folder. I'd reckon this needs checking with Gamin, but I think it's more a problem with Nautilus than the file alteration daemon, as it is unreasonable to expect it to know about a directory's externally linked names. Cheers Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. `mkdir test` 2. `ln -s test testlink` 3. `gnome-open test` 4. `gnome-open testlink` 5. `touch test/testfile` Actual Results: directory listing is updated in only the Nautilus window displaying the "test" folder Expected Results: both directory listings should have been updated, because nautilus should have been monitoring "test" for both windows Refresh the folder views to confirm that the folders are linked. Nautilus version 2.10.1 GNOME Desktop version 2.10.2 Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk ftp://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac abook acpi alsa apache2 apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bzlib calendar cdr cjk cli crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dv dvd dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fam fame fastcgi fbcon fla flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal imap imlib ipv6 jabber jack java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Cheers guys
Actually, had another think about this this morning. Maybe it is famd or gamin that should pick up when you tell it to monitor a folder that is a symlink? I'm not sure what I was thinking yesterday, but it makes more sense that way I think.
Works fine with Gamin. I assume this will be a non-issue in GNOME 2.12 if we are defaulting to Gamin over FAM?
its recc. to use gamin, although it still unstable at this point
This does not work with Gamin using inotify. Curses!
Hum it looks like it works for me. I'm using gnome-2.14 Can you reproduce this problem by now ?
This is fixed, closing. Don't hesitate to reopen or file a new bug if it still happens :) Thanks
