Re: [gamin] [PATCH] inotify 0.6 + new gamin patches



On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:38:52PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> I am have been hitting the kernel side pretty hard, it has been solid
> for a few days now. I am working on a revamped inotify backend that
> doesn't use the poll backend at all. To achieve this I have changed the
> kernel side of inotify to also give us the filename when an event
> happens on a directory. For example 
> 
> watch /tmp
> touch /tmp/bfg
> 
> the kernel will send a creation event to the watcher of /tmp and include
> bfg in the event.
> 
> Hopefully I will have something to show tommorow.

  My only advice is to make sure you get good feedback first on the 
suggested kernel API changes by kernel hackers. Their consent should be
acquired first before trying to push patches, because you will need them
to push it forward to the actual kernel, if it doesn't end up being integrated
this will be a nice exercise but missing the point :-)

Daniel

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