Re: [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u]

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:24, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:21 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> 
> > I have just looked quickly at the inotify backend this weekend, so not
> > really clued up yet, so excuse the stupid question:  Does this mean
> > inotify is now up to par with dnotify/poll feature wise?  Or should we
> > still look at getting inotify backend to use poll?
> 
> inotify supports poll in the sense that you can poll() or select()
> on /dev/inotify.
> 
> dnotify does not support poll() at all (it is signal based), so your
> question is kind of confusing.
> 
> I cannot think of any features that dnotify has that inotify does not.
> 

He is speaking of the poll backend for gamin. Using that will allow
gamin to watch things that don't exist yet amongst other things.

John