inotify_update: start update when directory is created

This is useful at the maximum depth level, to update newly created directories. It is however questionable if the hard-coded 5 seconds delay is enough to create new directory trees with all of their files, but we might make that delay configurable in the future.

inotify_update: start update when directory is created
8d631b34 · Max Kellermann · 393bcd96 · 8d631b34
Commit 8d631b34 authored Apr 13, 2010 by Max Kellermann
Hide whitespace changes
Inline Side-by-side

Showing with 6 additions and 2 deletions

inotify_update.c src/inotify_update.c +6 -2

No files found.
--- a/src/inotify_update.c
+++ b/src/inotify_update.c
@@ -275,8 +275,12 @@ mpd_inotify_callback(int wd, unsigned mask,
 		g_free(path_fs);
 	}

-	if ((mask & (IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVE|IN_DELETE)) != 0) {
-		/* a file was changed, or a direectory was
+	if ((mask & (IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVE|IN_DELETE)) != 0 ||
+	    /* at the maximum depth, we watch out for newly created
+	       directories */
+	    (watch_directory_depth(directory) == inotify_max_depth &&
+	     (mask & (IN_CREATE|IN_ISDIR)) == (IN_CREATE|IN_ISDIR))) {
+		/* a file was changed, or a directory was
 		   moved/deleted: queue a database update */
 		char *uri_utf8 = uri_fs != NULL
 			? fs_charset_to_utf8(uri_fs)