Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: IMON in mainstream Linux kernel?



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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