From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Chinmay V S <cvs268@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Query regarding inotify and mmap-ed files
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:15:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627201522.GC4165@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-9PRCAazCn6t_Rc_YiC4dXS3TegRuaQL=TW9v-ibHbMS4L8A@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:22:35PM +0800, Chinmay V S wrote:
> [2] Also considering that inotify is *THE* "goto framework" for
> monitoring the filesystem,
inotify is a mistake, with rather serious design restrictions on
possible uses. Don't step into it...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-06-27 10:19 ` Fwd: Query regarding inotify and mmap-ed files Chinmay V S
2013-06-27 10:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-06-27 14:22 ` Chinmay V S
2013-06-27 20:15 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-06-28 3:46 ` Chinmay V S
2013-07-01 13:37 ` Jan Kara
2013-07-01 14:08 ` Chinmay V S
2013-07-01 15:24 ` Jan Kara
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