Re: New module proposal: tracker

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 18.08.09 17:26, Patryk Zawadzki (patrys pld-linux org) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Lennart Poettering<mztabzr 0pointer de> wrote:
> > Uh, generally bugs should be fixed, not worked around. Especially if
> > they are as crucial as this one.
> 
> Sure but getting a recursive inotify will likely take years as with
> most kernel features (= development time + significant adoption time).

That is not true.

And even if it was, distributions tend to merge kernel patches into
the distribution kernels before they are merged upstrem if it is likely
that it will end up there eventually. So this is really not an
argument here.

We are in the lucky position to have control on the full system, the
kernel as well as userspace. While the general processes might be a
bit different in the end it's not that much harder to get something
into the kernel than into is to get it into glib or glibc or whatever.

Don't believe that the kernel folks are inacessible people one
couldn't talk to.

Lennart

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