Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Mon Jul 19 2004 - 08:34:45 EST


Ian Kent wrote:

So the number of watches is restricted to the max number of file
handles/process?

Note: I have not read the code. We should probably do so before speculating.

However, it looks like you have one fd, and reading from it gives you a data structure of information about the event. The max number of watches could be as high as INT_MAX depending on implementation.

Chris
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