Re: Inotify

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:18 -0400, Joe Gasiorek wrote:

> But this does raise a larger question:
> 
> With all of these exceptions are we now requireing inotify or is it
> just a helpful feature?

It looks like we are going to end up requiring it.  But we can keep the
backend file monitoring code clean enough that, while it may be a
practical requirement, nothing technically weds us to inotify.  So a
port to a different Unix or to use some future-notify thing is not
impossible.

	Robert Love