Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement
- From: Chris Wedgwood <cw f00f org>
- To: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- Cc: John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>, Nautilus <nautilus-list gnome org>, linux-kernel vger kernel org
- Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement
- Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:41:48 -0700
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:02:42PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Its the single thing which forces users of dnotify to have an
> otherwise useless daemon.
fam? fam is useless for reasons other than dnotify.
> Signals are process global resources. As such, a library can't
> allocate them, so dnotify can't be used in a library.
That's simply bogus. Pass in the signal number to the library if
necessary. inotify sounds more like a hack to keep some gnome crap
happy than anything else.
--cw
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