From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify, improved.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119025765.3949.118.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506171611.j5HGBFY8012609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:11 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....
Yah, no one would expect otherwise. One nice feature of it would be
able to see if the pid is equal to a known pid, say yourself or some
worker process.
But I've also received requests to send the size and offset of a
read/write, the user, etc. etc. I just say no.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-17 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 17:18 [patch] inotify Robert Love
2005-06-16 17:52 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-16 18:25 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-17 1:35 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:15 ` [patch] inotify, improved Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:37 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 15:44 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 16:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-17 16:29 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-06-17 16:36 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 16:43 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-17 16:46 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-06-17 16:40 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 17:57 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:20 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:54 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:56 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 18:15 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:17 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:07 ` [patch] inotify Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-17 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:12 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:16 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:38 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:54 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 17:56 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 21:40 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 23:52 ` Robert Love
2005-06-21 0:51 ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21 2:15 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21 2:29 ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21 2:43 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21 15:55 ` Robert Love
2005-07-14 0:25 ` Neil Brown
2005-07-14 4:11 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-18 0:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-18 0:57 ` Robert Love
2005-06-18 1:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
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