From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262215AbUEJWjB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:39:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262238AbUEJWjB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:39:01 -0400 Received: from CPE0000c02944d6-CM00003965a061.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([69.193.74.215]:36018 "EHLO tentacle.dhs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262215AbUEJWiz (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:38:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement From: John McCutchan To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <1084152941.22837.21.camel@vertex> <20040510021141.GA10760@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1084227460.28663.8.camel@vertex> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1084228900.28903.2.camel@vertex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:41:40 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 18:31, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2004, John McCutchan wrote: > > > > 3) dnotify cannot easily watch changes for a directory hierarchy > > > > People don't seem to really care about this one. Alexander Larsson has > > said he doesn't care about it. It might be nice to add in the future. > > Please excuse my ignorance, but who is Alexander Larsson? A dnotify > replacement that does not have the ability to watch for a hierarchy is > pretty much useless. Or do you want to drop thousands of single watches to > accomplish that? Alexander Larsson is the maintainer of nautilus, gnome-vfs and I think the dnotify patch for fam. He made a post to l-k a month or two ago about why he doesn't care about it. I do plan on adding this feature in the near future though. John