rawhide report: 20050810 changes
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Wed Aug 10 22:28:36 UTC 2005
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:17:42PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:15:23AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that inotify is now in the kernel? And if so, why is
> > inotify so important?
>
> As far as I have figured, because dnotify sucks for directories.
s/ for directories//
dnotify can only watch directories ! Yeah if you want to watch
/tmp/mylog you get an event to process each time anything changes
in /tmp for example.
dnotify_sucks++
the counter is pretty high at that point... that far from being the
only issue.
Daniel
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