Re: [PATCH =-v3 18/21] fanotify: all userspace to set timeouts

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:12:01AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> fanotify when used to make access decisions has a default 5 second timeout.
> This patch will allow userspace listeners to change their timeout on a
> group wide basis.  Userspace listeners will still be able to reset the
> timeout for individual events.

Really, I think you start to over-engineer.  I think this whole stuff
would have a much higher chance if you could come up with a staged set
of patchsets, ala:

 (1) unify the current *notify schemes
 (2) add a filesystem wide notify scheme
 (3) add blocking filesystem notifiers

and then maybe a fourth with all the misc little things that I doubt
will have much of a chance.

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