[PATCH 3/3] Documentation: Reword example about inotify's fd-per-instance design

From: Aaron Faanes
Date: Sun Apr 24 2011 - 20:36:11 EST


Made the final example read more clearly by splitting it into a
couple more sentences.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Faanes <dafrito@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
index 8d8cba1..fbb50ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
@@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ A: An fd-per-watch quickly consumes more file descriptors than are allowed,

- 1024 is still too low. ;-)

- When you talk about designing a file change notification system that
- scales to 1000s of directories, juggling 1000s of fd's just does not seem
- to be the right interface. It is too heavy.
+ For example, consider the design of a file change notification system that
+ scales to 1000s of directories. Juggling 1000s of fd's in this case is just
+ not the right interface. It is too heavy.

Additionally, it _is_ possible to have more than one instance and
juggle more than one queue and thus more than one associated fd. There
--
1.7.4.4

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