From: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
nautilus-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:31:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090272690.6954.1.camel@vertex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40FBCD8F.1080300@nortelnetworks.com>
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:33, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Ian Kent wrote:
>
> > So the number of watches is restricted to the max number of file
> > handles/process?
>
> Note: I have not read the code. We should probably do so before speculating.
>
> However, it looks like you have one fd, and reading from it gives you a data
> structure of information about the event. The max number of watches could be as
> high as INT_MAX depending on implementation.
Yes you are right. The maximum number of watchers is per-device. I have
it defined as 256 now. Also the maximum number of devices that can be
opened at a time is 8.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-19 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-18 19:49 [PATCH] inotify 0.5 John McCutchan
2004-07-18 19:53 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:02 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 20:11 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-07-18 20:22 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-18 23:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-07-19 1:42 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-19 8:43 ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19 13:33 ` Chris Friesen
2004-07-19 21:31 ` John McCutchan [this message]
2004-07-20 2:59 ` Eric Lammerts
2004-07-20 3:24 ` John McCutchan
2004-07-20 1:33 ` Ian Kent
2004-07-19 3:37 ` Daniel Veillard
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1090272690.6954.1.camel@vertex \
--to=ttb@tentacle.dhs.org \
--cc=cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com \
--cc=davidel@xmailserver.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=nautilus-list@gnome.org \
--cc=raven@themaw.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox