Re: [MLUG] filesystem hooks

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> > So what are you really trying to do here?
> > 
> > jking
> 
> I was wondering the same thing.  Plus, this would *really,
> really, really* slow down your system.  Maybe grind it to a
> halt.  Think of the overhead in forking, interpreting then
> executing a shell script each time a file is written.

Euuw. I hadn't thought about that.  And in this case, not 
even a daemon would save you since that would have to fork, too,
to handle multiple requests.

OK, so here's another idea: instead of messing around with the file 
system in this case, why not just accept the fact that you're asking
for functionality that is really more in tune with a database that
has triggers?  You're still looking at a lot of crunching around, 
but you could at least cut down on the process creation overhead,
handle the transactions atomically, and get accounting built-in, 
too.

So what are you really trying to do here?

jking

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