From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264850AbUGTDUq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:20:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265041AbUGTDUq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:20:46 -0400 Received: from CPE0000c02944d6-CM00003965a061.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([69.193.74.215]:52168 "EHLO tentacle.dhs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264850AbUGTDUp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:20:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] inotify 0.5 From: John McCutchan To: Eric Lammerts Cc: Chris Friesen , Ian Kent , Davide Libenzi , Linux Kernel Mailing List , nautilus-list@gnome.org In-Reply-To: References: <40FBCD8F.1080300@nortelnetworks.com> <40FBCD8F.1080300@nortelnetworks.com> <1090272690.6954.1.camel@vertex> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1090293890.14653.2.camel@vertex> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 23:24:50 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:59, Eric Lammerts wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote: > > Also the maximum number of devices that can be opened at a time is > > 8. > > Why is that limit there? There doesn't seem to be any particular need > for it in the code... Why not remove watcher_count altogether? > The limits are there to control the amount of kernel resources used by inotify. They are not meant to be anything but a guesstimate. John