That is actually very helpful to me. I can go once over and test mtime, queue those that have diff modify times and test those for md5sum.. very interesting..

Of course there *is* a remote possiblity that an absolute path will be used twice, and their modify times would be the same- yet the data would be different. It *is* possible.

Still.. I like. The only thing I can think of that would go around all these problems would be to mess with the guts of the filesystem itself. Which I am almost tempted to learn more about - someday..

Thank you. This is helpful.

In reply to Re^2: (OT) indexing pdf archive content in a multiuser environment- how do i know when the content changed? by leocharre
in thread (OT) indexing pdf archive content in a multiuser environment- how do i know when the content changed? by leocharre

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