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From: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>, Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9.2
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:27:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095820046.22558.4.camel@vertex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41504C21.3090506@nortelnetworks.com>

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:43, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 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];
> };

This makes reading events from inotify a pain, first you need to read up
to namelen, then read namelen more bytes. 

John


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-22  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20  3:56 [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9.2 John McCutchan
2004-09-20 21:52 ` Robert Love
2004-09-21  5:21 ` Robert Love
2004-09-21 15:34   ` Edgar Toernig
2004-09-21 15:43     ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-22  2:27       ` John McCutchan [this message]
2004-09-23  1:46         ` Ray Lee
2004-09-23  3:42           ` John McCutchan
2004-09-23  4:52             ` Ray Lee
2004-09-23  5:10               ` Robert Love
2004-09-23  5:29                 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-21 15:46     ` Robert Love
2004-09-21  5:26 ` Robert Love
2004-09-21  5:44 ` Robert Love
2004-09-21 16:04 ` Robert Love
2004-09-21 18:56   ` Robert Love
2004-09-21 20:55     ` Robert Love
2004-09-22  2:32     ` John McCutchan
2004-09-22  3:49       ` Robert Love

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