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From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	nautilus-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:33:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40FBCD8F.1080300@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407191642080.8909@wombat.indigo.net.au>

Ian Kent wrote:

> So the number of watches is restricted to the max number of file
> handles/process?

Note: I have not read the code.  We should probably do so before speculating.

However, it looks like you have one fd, and reading from it gives you a data 
structure of information about the event.  The max number of watches could be as 
high as INT_MAX depending on implementation.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-19 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-18 19:49 [PATCH] inotify 0.5 John McCutchan
2004-07-18 19:53 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:02   ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 20:11     ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:22       ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 23:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-07-19  1:42   ` John McCutchan
2004-07-19  8:43     ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19 13:33       ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-07-19 21:31         ` John McCutchan
2004-07-20  2:59           ` Eric Lammerts
2004-07-20  3:24             ` John McCutchan
2004-07-20  1:33         ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19  3:37 ` Daniel Veillard

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