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Bug 627107 - Support for remote file monitoring over CIFS
Support for remote file monitoring over CIFS
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: smb backend
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-08-17 07:46 UTC by Josselin Mouette
Modified: 2018-09-21 17:05 UTC
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Description Josselin Mouette 2010-08-17 07:46:13 UTC 
The CIFS protocol supports remote file change notification, using the NT_TRANSACT_NOTIFY_CHANGE command. It would be nice to add support for this in the gvfs backend.
Comment 1 Tomas Bzatek 2010-08-26 15:30:50 UTC 
We use libsmbclient for accessing CIFS shares which basically wraps the protocol to POSIX-like calls. I couldn't find any function related to monitoring in any kind, unfortunately. You may want to talk to Samba folks first, perhaps this feature comes in Samba 4 series.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2010-08-26 15:33:39 UTC 
There's no FindNotify support in libsmbclient:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7393
Comment 3 Ondrej Holy 2017-10-20 06:22:34 UTC 
The mentioned bug is solved and you can see smbc_notify in libsmbclient.h:
https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/master/source3/include/libsmbclient.h#L1647

However, there is still a problem that it is not threadsafe:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11413

:-(
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 17:05:59 UTC 
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