delays between creating file in linux and file avail in mol

Subject: delays between creating file in linux and file avail in mol
From: Alex J. Avriette (nolimits@cts.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 07:52:25 MDT

im currently working on a perl script and switching back and forth
between mol and an xterm window (as well as an emacs window) in x.
there's a problem with this, however. if i want to, for example,
de-tar a file and it creates a directory, mol doesnt see the
directory, even if i close the appropriate window within mol and
reopen it.

curious note:

i was quite frustrated with this problem. in a directory in which
xterm saw a subdir (~/currdirr/scriptdir), mol did not see
/scriptdir. so within mol, with the "folder" /currdir opened, i made
a new folder called "scriptdir" (you see where this is going, i
think). my goal was to see the files contained within scriptdir --
which macos did not see!

i then switched back to xterm (which was still inside
/currdir/scriptdir) and everything was okay (in xterm). so i figured,
"whoops, this could be problematic!" and threw out the "folder" i had
just created (scriptdir). i went back to xterm and did an ls, to
which it gave me an error (no such file or directory), and kicked me
back up one level to /currdir. so, worried that i had nuked my
scripts, i went back to mol and rescued the scriptdir folder from the
trash, and transplanted it to where it had been.

i then cd'ed back to scriptdir, and lo, all the files that had been
"thrown out" (inside an empty folder, mind you...) were back. and
macos still cant see them.

is this just something that hasnt been entirely implemented? perhaps
a limitation of (what seems to be) dually-mounted disks? im not sure
whats going on. is there a workaround for this phenomenon?

am i working at destroying my disk?! :)

thanks in advance folks
alex 

--
                            alex avriette
                        silver spring, maryland
 
     Addict d. "An accordion word which expands or contracts
     to please the audience being played to."
     Bruce D. Johnson, _Once an Addict, Seldom an Addict_, 1977

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