On 26/01/2015 16:22, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 26/01/15 15:33, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Huge
wrote:

On 2015-01-24, Tim Streater wrote:

I see that file browser windows in Win7 (and in fact in Linus Mint)
have a little "refresh" icon for the user to click because they are
unable to be told that their view of a folder is now out of date.

In the Linux case, not strictly true. You *can* manually refresh the
view, if you want to, but the Linux kernel has the ability to inform
programs that the filesystem has changed out from under them, and
Debian,
Ubuntu & Mint file browsers make use of that. I rarely, if ever, click
the button.

OK thanks - I'll watch out for that next time I fire up the Mint VM.

Theres a couple of things that confuse Mints file manager thing. One is
NFS. If you hard mount an NFS share and it goes away, so too will your
computer as the auto=refresh simply hangs.

Its not really surprising as NFS is stateless.
Its why apps use lock files so they think they know who owns the file.
Shame it doesn't work very well.

There was a proper system RFS IIRC.