On my system I put the files I want to serve via coherence in a symlinked directory. That works great, except when a file is deleted it's not delisted. Inotify is returning a "realpath" with all the symlinks deref'ed. This patch for 0.6.4 fixes it.
Index: coherence/backends/fs_storage.py
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--- coherence/backends/fs_storage.py (revision 1284)
+++ coherence/backends/fs_storage.py (working copy)
@@ -519,8 +519,10 @@
for child in parent.children:
#if not isinstance(name, unicode):
# name = name.decode("utf8")
+ child_realpath = os.path.realpath(child.location.path)
self.debug("%r %r %r" % (child.get_name(),child.get_realpath(), name == child.get_realpath()))
- if name == child.get_realpath():
+ if name == child_realpath:
+ self.debug('get_id_by_name found: child.id %r' % (child.id,))
return child.id
except:
import traceback
