Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9.2

[Chris Friesen]

Edgar Toernig wrote:
> Robert Love wrote:
>
> > struct inotify_event {
> > 	int wd;
> > 	int mask;
> > -	char filename[256];
> > +	char filename[PATH_MAX];
> > };
>
>
> You really want to shove >4kB per event to userspace???

Ouch.

Maybe make it variable-size?  On average it would likely be shorter.

struct inotify_event {
	int wd;
	int mask;
	short namelen;
	char filename[0];
};

Chris
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