Re: [gamin] New inotify backend checked in

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le vendredi 05 août 2005 à 11:32 -0400, Daniel Veillard a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:04:42AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > Yes, if we decide to support a busy poll fallback when using inotify, it
> > > would be MUCH cheaper than the dnotify was. But I'm still not convinced
> > > that it is needed.
> > 
> >    I gave rationale for it, point is that if it isn't needed it won't
> > be used, but implementation is ultra cheap especially on inotify. The problem
> > is that within 3 months you won't get any feedback about those use cases.
> 
>   That said that should not block us from pushing a release to get feedback.
> The main problem anyway will be to have an inotify recent kernel. Fedora
> doesn't, Mandrake still use the old kernel API, so this will have limited
> scope. We can still discuss the poll/no poll added support and mechanisms
> independantly.

Well, I plan to push new gamin as soon as Kat is ported to inotify 0.24
so we can update our kernel to the latest inotify API.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
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