[Geany-Users] 1.25 incorrectly detecting file changes

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Wed Jul 22 12:29:48 UTC 2015


On 22 July 2015 at 22:24, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 July 2015 at 17:04, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> I've never heard of it. One thing you could try is to watch the files using
>> `inotifywait` (in `inotify-tools` package) like:
>>
>>     $ inotifywait -m /path/to/a/file/in/question
>>
>> And see if it reports changes. Another way (since I don't think Geany uses
>> inotify by default but rather just stat's the file), would be something
>> like:
>>
>>     $ watch -n 1 stat -c '%y' /path/to/a/file/in/question
>>
>> And see if the timestamp changes when you do whatever stuff to the files. If
>> it does change, it's expected that Geany would prompt you since the file
>> actually changed (it would be a bug in your filesystem).
>
> I'm on a different machine today, but I'll have to try this out on
> Friday when I'm using the machine I upgraded on.
>
> Is there any way to switch Geany to using inotify over stat?  I'm not
> sure if that'd help, but worth a try.

It has been tried, but IIRC it seemed to generate even more spurious
notifications, so it was turned off.

Cheers
Lex

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