[python-win32] ReadDirectoryChangesW

Mark Hammond skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 01:15:28 CET 2009


On 10/02/2009 7:39 AM, Eric Blade wrote:
>> Eric Blade wrote:
>>> I am getting significantly unreliable results using
>>> ReadDirectoryChangesW, attempting to use a simplified version of the
>>> codes that had been presented to me in my last query for help..
>> Eric, can you say what results you *are* getting and in what
>> way they're unreliable? I don't claim to have tested my own
>> version of this exhaustively, but it seems to work in simple
>> terms.
>>
>> (Sorry, your code was just so messed up between your email
>> client and mine that I couldn't face putting it back together)
>
> In what way was it messed up? *strange*
>
> Here's the relevant bits, again:
>
> http://pastebin.ca/1331850
>
> Sometimes I'm getting results as they happen, other times, I don't get
> a change notification until many minutes after it happens, sometimes,
> i never get it at all.

It would help if you can reduce this down to the smallest possible 
*complete* sample we can run and see the strangeness for ourselves...

Cheers,

Mark


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