Re:Dropbox, why it rox and how I (and others) use it.
by jwilliams on Saturday December 13, 2008 @07:14PM
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Could you elaborate more on this? What triggers the sync in the application-level example?
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Re:Dropbox, why it rox and how I (and others) use it.
by huhtenberg on Saturday December 13, 2008 @11:45PM
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An OS notification does. The app subscribes to the directory content changes and the OS dispatches a notification (in whatever form) when the change happens.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365261.aspx for example.
Another option, of course, is a periodic explicit directory scan, but that's quite lame.