From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Zeh <robert.allan.zeh@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:26:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=5s0WoA5Y-2wmJRsthtckaMAcRK=JhqhduMty1Pr=Lqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0=6_n4rf6AWci6J+uhGHpjTUmK7YFdVHuSJedN2zLWtMA@mail.gmail.com>
Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Okay, now you're asking me to consider a system-wide daemon
> independent of systemd. It has to run with root privileges so it has
> access to everyone's repositories, which means that people have to
> trust it beyond doubt. What does it do? It has a generic API to
> watch filesystem paths and report events over an IP socket. Do you
> think that this will only be useful to git? Every other version
> control system (and presumably many other pieces of software) will
> want to use it. One huge downside I see of making this part of
> systemd is Ubuntu. They've decided not to use systemd for some
> unfathomable reason.
After some thought, I've decided that extending systemd is not the way
to go. And the dbus API is really an overkill. Writing a simple
system-wide daemon shouldn't be a challenge; the hard part is getting
git to use it properly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-09 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-08 21:10 inotify to minimize stat() calls Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-08 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-08 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 2:10 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 2:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 2:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-09 3:36 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-09 12:05 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:53 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 12:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 17:10 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-09 18:56 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-02-10 5:24 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 11:17 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 11:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 20:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-11 2:56 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-11 11:12 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-07 22:16 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 0:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-08 7:01 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 8:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-08 9:24 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-08 10:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-10 8:23 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-13 12:59 ` [PATCH] status: hint the user about -uno if read_directory takes too long Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-03-13 15:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-13 16:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-14 10:22 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-14 15:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 12:30 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-03-15 15:52 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 15:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-03-15 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 17:41 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 20:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-15 21:14 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-15 21:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-16 7:21 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-03-17 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-16 1:51 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 13:26 ` inotify to minimize stat() calls demerphq
2013-02-10 15:35 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-14 14:36 ` Magnus Bäck
2013-02-10 16:45 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-11 3:03 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-10 16:58 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-02-11 3:53 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-12 20:48 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-13 10:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-13 12:15 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-13 18:18 ` Jeff King
2013-02-13 19:47 ` Jeff King
2013-02-13 20:25 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-13 22:55 ` Jeff King
2013-02-14 0:48 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 14:45 ` [PATCH] name-hash.c: fix endless loop with core.ignorecase=true Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 16:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-27 21:52 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-27 23:57 ` [PATCH v2] " Karsten Blees
2013-02-28 0:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-19 9:49 ` inotify to minimize stat() calls Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-19 14:25 ` Karsten Blees
2013-02-19 13:16 ` Drew Northup
2013-02-19 13:47 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 19:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-10 19:03 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-10 19:26 ` Martin Fick
2013-02-10 20:18 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-11 3:21 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-11 14:13 ` Robert Zeh
2013-02-19 9:57 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-04-24 17:20 ` [PATCH] " Robert Zeh
2013-04-24 21:32 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-25 19:44 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 21:20 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-04-26 15:35 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 8:18 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-25 19:37 ` Robert Zeh
2013-04-25 19:59 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-27 13:51 ` Thomas Rast
2013-04-27 23:56 ` Duy Nguyen
[not found] ` <CAKXa9=r2A7UeBV2s2H3wVGdPkS1zZ9huNJhtvTC-p0S5Ed12xA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-30 0:27 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-02-09 11:32 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-02-14 15:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2013-02-14 16:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-19 9:40 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
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