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Subject: Re: kqueue of a nfs mounted file not working
From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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> On 15 Nov 2015, at 17:26, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:22:55AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>> HI,
>> I???m writing a program to monitor a file using kqueue(2), if the =
file is local
>> all is OK, but if the file is via a nfs mounted fs, it only works =
once.
>> stat shows the file growing, but kevent is not triggered.
>=20
> Does file grow due to local changes on the nfs client, or some other
> client changes the file, while your client tries to get kevent =
notifications ?

it gets updated by a host which has the file as local, so yes, it gets =
updated
by another client/host.