Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?
- From: Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Ian McKellar <yakk-nautilus yakk net au>, 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 16:43:13 -0400 (EDT)
On 14 Jun 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> None of which really matter for a GUI filemanager. ;-)
Well. I think the idea is that if you put it in the kernel it must be
good, because people are gonna use it for a lot of thing.
That doesn't explain why Linus accepted the crappy SIGIO thing though.
/ Alex
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