Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5

Davide Libenzi
2004-07-18T23:37:36Z

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote:

> Inotify is a replacement for dnotify.
>
> The main difference between this and my earlier inotify design, is that
> device numbers and inode numbers are no longer used. The interface
> between user and kernel space uses a watcher descriptor.
>
> inotify is a char device with two ioctls
>
> WATCH
> which takes
>
> struct inotify_watch_request {
> char *dirname; // directory name
> unsigned long mask; // event mask
> };
>
> and returns a watcher descriptor (int)

Does such descriptor supports poll(2) (... f_op->poll())?

- Davide