From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Newall Subject: Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support. Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:33:35 +1030 Message-ID: <492D4927.8040204@davidnewall.com> References: <20081125194234.GA24449@ioremap.net> <20081125162434.4feacbbf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081126074239.GA17525@ioremap.net> <20081126001538.4b1c7c99.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081126082936.GB17525@ioremap.net> <492D4560.8000302@davidnewall.com> <20081126125113.GA8921@ioremap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081126125113.GA8921-i6C2adt8DTjR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Andrew Morton , john-jueV0HHMeujJJrXXpGQQMAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org, mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, hch-jcswGhMUV9g@public.gmane.org, rlove-L7G0xEPcOZbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org, Eric Paris List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall (davidn-KzQzY1MbaKjAHznzqCTclw@public.gmane.org) wrote: > >> I don't think so. As discussed, >> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can >> differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify. >> > > And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded > performance overhead. > If the performance using a local loopback is insufficient, or even when using a UNIX domain socket, then it's going to be even worse for the actual network-connected clients. And the cases were it doesn't work amount to poor system administration, which is a solvable problem. >> This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or >> more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all. >> > > Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty... Amusing, but irrelevant to programming. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html