[Zope-dev] Re: AdaptableStorage

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Shane Hathaway wrote:

> On the filesystem, the problem seems much more difficult, since there 
> are no transactions.  You'd like the kernel to send Zope a message 
> anytime someone modifies a file in a certain hierarchy, but that would 
> require kernel hacking.

FWIW, since I had the same problem some time ago (which could be solved 
in another way),
I dug out an url, which might be of interest - probably you already know 
about it:

FAM, used by the two major open source desktop envs:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

It may at least help to make the whole problem more os independend.
They have a lot of related pointers on their homepage.

Btw. windows (>=nt IIRC) already has the capability to notify on 
directory alteration events, without polling.

cheers,
oliver