Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 23:12:08 EST


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:41:40PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

> Alexander Larsson is the maintainer of nautilus, gnome-vfs and I
> think the dnotify patch for fam. He made a post to l-k a month or
> two ago about why he doesn't care about it. I do plan on adding this
> feature in the near future though.

I found the posting, it doesn't explain why dnotify using signals is
bad and I still don't see how inotify makes the situation any better.


--cw
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