Re: a little (folish?) idea

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
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> That's kind of what Reiser implemented in reiser4. I don't like the idea
> because it places a lot of burden on the system.
>
>
> > Well that would be the administrative tasks, the real challenge would be 
> > to create a certain framework which makes this possible.
>
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> The opposite direction, moving all the stuff into a tree and querying that
> has been taken in the past multiple times. Good examples are supposedly
> netinfo (from Next/MacOSX) and LDAP. Bad examples include the Windows
> registry.

Thank you for your reply/time, I wonder if there would be a other more 
elegant way to notify a program when a certain (text)file is changed. 
Doing it the way that it happens immediately but without burden on the 
system, or is this a technical paradox?


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