Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.35.7 to 3.0 Inotify events missing

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:29:43 +0100 Al Viro wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:37:56AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 
> > Possible solution:
> 
> > Then this can be solved, in principle (if there's no better way), by
> > watching a "virtual directory" that gets all events for when the
> > access doesn't have a parent directory.  There needs to be some way to
> > watch it, and some way to get the appropriate file from the event (as
> > there is no real directory.  Or maybe there could be a virtual
> > filesystem (like /proc, /sys etc.) containing a magic directory that
> > receives these inode-only events, such that lookups in that directory
> > yield the affected file.  Exactly as if the directory contains a hard
> > link to every file, perhaps a text encoding of the handles passed
> > through sys_open_by_handle_at.
> 
> There is a better way - stop using idiotify...  It has always been a
> mistake, driven down our throats by filemangler and desktop crowd.
> Broken in many, _many_ respects...  Deprecate that crap, remove it
> completely in a couple of revisions, let these clowns cope.  Yeah,
> yeah, I know...  Not going to happen ;-/  One can dream, though...

What do you suggest as a functioning alternative to inotify?

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~Randy