Re: inotify-enabled apps [was: inotail]

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:18:09AM +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
 > Hi.
 > 
 > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:01:42 -0500, Dave Jones wrote
 > 
 > > That sounds bizarre. Why would it need to poll for file changes at
 > > all? It would be more logical if crontab(1) told crond that
 > > modifications were made after it gets run.
 > 
 > Which does not solve the case of changes to the cron system made
 > without crontab.

if the daemon needs inotify to notice that it made changes itself,
there are bigger problems.

		Dave

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