Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9.2

Chris Friesen
2004-09-21T15:44:30Z

Edgar Toernig wrote:
> Robert Love wrote:
>
>> struct inotify_event {
>> int wd;
>> int mask;
>>- char filename[256];
>>+ char filename[PATH_MAX];
>> };
>
>
> You really want to shove >4kB per event to userspace???

Ouch.

Maybe make it variable-size? On average it would likely be shorter.

struct inotify_event {
int wd;
int mask;
short namelen;
char filename[0];
};

Chris