2nd milestone reached: Notification now works with deleted, renamed, and

inode-modified files.
Next milestone: Make it work for files which are not yet there (DN_CREATE)

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.cpp b/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.cpp
index de4c63b..270570e 100644
--- a/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.cpp
+++ b/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.cpp
@@ -202,6 +202,14 @@ bool OFileNotification::hasChanged()
     ::memset( &newstat, 0, sizeof newstat );
-    ::stat( _path, &newstat );
+    int result = ::stat( _path, &newstat ); // may fail if file has been renamed or deleted. that doesn't matter :)
 
+    qDebug( "result of newstat call is %d (%s=%d)", result, strerror( errno ), errno );
     qDebug( "stat.atime = %0lx, newstat.atime = %0lx", (long)_stat.st_atime, (long)newstat.st_atime );
     qDebug( "stat.mtime = %0lx, newstat.mtime = %0lx", (long)_stat.st_mtime, (long)newstat.st_mtime );
+    qDebug( "stat.ctime = %0lx, newstat.ctime = %0lx", (long)_stat.st_ctime, (long)newstat.st_ctime );
+
+    if ( !c && (_type & (Delete|Rename)) && (long)newstat.st_atime == 0 && (long)newstat.st_mtime == 0 && (long)newstat.st_ctime == 0)
+    {
+        qDebug( "OFileNotification::hasChanged(): file has been deleted or renamed" );
+        c = true;
+    }
     if ( !c && (_type & Access) && (long)_stat.st_atime < (long)newstat.st_atime )
@@ -216,2 +224,7 @@ bool OFileNotification::hasChanged()
     }
+    if ( !c && (_type & Attrib) && (long)_stat.st_ctime < (long)newstat.st_ctime )
+    {
+        qDebug( "OFileNotification::hasChanged(): ctime changed" );
+        c = true;
+    }
 
diff --git a/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.h b/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.h
index 5315896..13b5a6b 100644
--- a/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.h
+++ b/libopie2/opiecore/ofilenotify.h
@@ -78,3 +78,3 @@ class OFileNotification : public QObject
     bool activate();
-    bool hasChanged();
+    virtual bool hasChanged();
     static bool registerSignalHandler();
@@ -92,2 +92,10 @@ class OFileNotification : public QObject
 
+
+class ODirectoryNotification : public OFileNotification
+{
+  public:
+      virtual bool hasChanged() { return true; };
+};
+
+
 }