Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen nortelnetworks com>]

Ian Kent wrote:

> So the number of watches is restricted to the max number of file
> handles/process?

Note: I have not read the code.  We should probably do so before speculating.

However, it looks like you have one fd, and reading from it gives you a data 
structure of information about the event.  The max number of watches could be as 
high as INT_MAX depending on implementation.

Chris