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Bug 351141

Summary:	Refresh on access does not work for directories
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bruno.do.medeiros, jamesblackburn+eclipse, remy.suen
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Lars Vogel

2011-07-05 03:32:50 EDT

Eclipse 3.7 introduces the "Refresh on access" preference settings and functionality which is tremendous useful. Unfortunately it seems that this setting does not refresh folder if their content has changed. 

I think that would be a great enhancements. 


To test, create a new folder, add some files outside of Eclipse and try to delete it.

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2011-07-18 11:50:41 EDT

Right. It was designed this way. James, do you plan to look at refreshing folders the same way?

Comment 2 James Blackburn

2011-07-18 11:56:03 EDT

I think this should be WONT_FIX as I don't think we can do this without paying a *very* high I/O penalty.  The resource tree is fast because iterating over it acts on the in memory tree only.

The refresh-on-access for files is somewhat different, in that we only refresh when the API-user is fetching the contents of the file. i.e. they're already initiating I/O.

Refresh automatically would be better than always stat()ing on access.  Failing that we should add refresh providers for other non-Windows platforms.

Comment 3 Szymon Brandys

2011-07-18 12:25:37 EDT

I agree. We should rather look at native refresh providers for non-Windows platforms.