Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I agree. It might even be acceptable not as a new flag, but as a 
> modification to existing behaviour. I can't imagine that a file manager is 
> all that interested in seeing the changes it itself does be reported back 
> to it. And I don't really know of any other uses of dnotify.

I take that back. Even a file manager may very well be interested in moves 
that it does itself - most of them have some soft of multi-window view 
capability, and if they use dnotify, they might well be using it to keep 
the different views coherent.

So yes, a new flag would likely be required. 

That said, who actually _uses_ dnotify? The only time dnotify seems to 
come up in discussions is when people complain how badly designed it is, 
and I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that they use it and 
that they liked it ;)

		Linus
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