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# Copyright (C) 2009 Google Inc.
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
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# General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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# 02110-1301, USA.
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"""Asynchronous pyinotify implementation"""
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import asyncore
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try:
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  from pyinotify import pyinotify
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except ImportError:
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  import pyinotify
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class AsyncNotifier(asyncore.file_dispatcher):
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  """An asyncore dispatcher for inotify events.
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  def __init__(self, watch_manager, default_proc_fun=None, map=None):
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    """Initializes this class.
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    This is a a special asyncore file_dispatcher that actually wraps a
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    pyinotify Notifier, making it asyncronous.
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    """
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    if default_proc_fun is None:
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      default_proc_fun = pyinotify.ProcessEvent()
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    self.notifier = pyinotify.Notifier(watch_manager, default_proc_fun)
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    # here we need to steal the file descriptor from the notifier, so we can
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    # use it in the global asyncore select, and avoid calling the
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    # check_events() function of the notifier (which doesn't allow us to select
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    self.fd = self.notifier._fd
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    asyncore.file_dispatcher.__init__(self, self.fd, map)
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  def handle_read(self):
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    self.notifier.read_events()
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    self.notifier.process_events()