#7 Patch to notify end of reception of a file

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Hi,

Here is a patch proposal to have the application being notified only when a file write is done.

• Problem statement:
  Our software is recieving large files from remote equipments, and it has to process the files
  as soon as they have been received.
  Due to network latency, file size, and storage performances, if file creation notification from
  JNotify is used our software may end up processing incomplete or corrupted data. Reason
  for that is that the files are not completely transferred when jnotify send the notification
  about their creation

  The proposed patch is solution for this problem.

• Solution proposed:
  In order to be notified when a file completely transferred to the watched folder, we added
  a new notification fileCloseWrite() that is sent when IN_CLOSE_WRITE event is
  received from the OS

• Impact and limitation

  • The API is modified with a new notification listener
  • the proposed patch is currently specific to Linux

Cheers

[Omry Yadan]

Thank you for the patch and for explaining the problem you were solving.
As this is Linux specific and JNotify is cross platform, I will hold off integrating this.
Others are of course free to patch this is they need this functionality and are only using Linux.