Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5
- From: John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>
- To: Eric Lammerts <eric lammerts org>
- Cc: nautilus-list gnome org, Chris Friesen <cfriesen nortelnetworks com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel vger kernel org>, Davide Libenzi <davidel xmailserver org>, Ian Kent <raven themaw net>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5
- Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:24:50 -0400
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:59, Eric Lammerts wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote:
> > Also the maximum number of devices that can be opened at a time is
> > 8.
>
> Why is that limit there? There doesn't seem to be any particular need
> for it in the code... Why not remove watcher_count altogether?
>
The limits are there to control the amount of kernel resources used by
inotify. They are not meant to be anything but a guesstimate.
John
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