On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 05:40:29PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019/08/01 17:32, su-@tutamail.com wrote:
> > hi guys,
> >
> > just wondering if mpd can be compiled with the auto-update enabled ? Currently after installing mpd binary I have to manually update my database when files are removed / added. Thxs for your time
> >
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> It's not a simple case of "enable flag and build it", this features uses
> a Linux-specific interface (inotify) to monitor directories.
>
> It might be possible to convert to something using the BSD kqueue interface,
> but this will use quite a lot of resources (a file descriptor for every
> monitored file, not just directory), on even an average sized music
> collection this is likely to run into kernel limits very easily ..
We have a port of inotify.
Maybe we could provide a FLAVOR?
(I don't need it, just saying)
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Antoine
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