Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?
- From: Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Ian McKellar <yakk-nautilus yakk net au>
- Cc: Yoann Vandoorselaere <yoann mandrakesoft com>, Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>, <nautilus-list lists eazel com>, <law sgi com>
- Subject: Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Ian McKellar wrote:
> The Linux 2.4 dnotify API is much much simpler than FAM. It simply tells you
> if something in a monitored directory has changed.
It also fails if there are multiple hard links to a file, and you're
watching it in a directory other than the one it is changed in.
Al Viro had various other complaints about it's semantics too.
/ Alex
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