Subject: Re: "knowing" when a file is available in a directory
To: Eric McWhorter <emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com>
From: abs <abs@mono.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/09/1999 23:46:16
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Eric McWhorter wrote:
> I read the first page of a document on portalfs and it mentioned a
> daemon.  If I read that right, then I think the overhead would be too
> high and I'd probably get better performance by getting the receiving
> process to somehow cooperate.  Good suggestion, though.  I will
> back-burner some portalfs experiments.

	If you can hook into the recieving process then just get it to 
	put the file into one dir, then rename into into another when
	complete  (or rename within the samedir to a given suffix)

	Low tech it may be, but simple is good :)