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From: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation/technical/api-fswatch.txt: start with
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:27:17 -0400
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gitster@pobox.com wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:38 -0700:
> Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > However, AFAIK inotify doesn't work recursively, so the daemon
> > would at least have to track the directory structure to be able to
> > register / unregister inotify handlers as directories come and go.
> 
> Yes, and you would need one inotify per directory but you do not
> have an infinite supply of outstanding inotify watch (wasn't the
> limit like 8k per a single uid or something?), so the daemon must be
> prepared to say "I'll watch this, that and that directories, but the
> consumers should check other directories themselves."

fanotify is an option here too; it can watch an entire file
system.

		-- Pete