Re: [gamin] Patch needed for inotify 0.10 [u]



On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 14:07 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 12:25, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 22:23 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Here is an updated patch so that gamin will work with the new inotify.
> > > 
> > 
> > This do not say much for 'inotify' interface is stable :D  Is there
> > a way that you can code up something to querry inotify to what features
> > it supports, and it returns a u64 or something that is an 'and' of all
> > the IN_ events supported?  When are all the unimplemented events going
> > to be implemented?
> > 
> 
> inotify is still in development, so it may not be stable. I do think
> that event masks should be pretty stable now. I don't want to kludge 
> things now by assuring backwards compatibility.
> 

Yes, I was more joking about it being brought up last week =)

Serious now - any more events that might be added?  If so, is it
possible to (while you are changing them anyhow now) to leave some
'gaps' to ease future additions?  Meaning break file/dir/fs/error
events' ids a bit more with unused ids inbetween?

> > NB: Do you have some implementation docs for inotify?
> 
> In the release notes there is a simple HOWTO. I just added a description
> of all of the events.
> 

Right, did not read past the release changes - bad habit due to many
lists I try to read :(


Thanks,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa

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