Re: [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u]

Robert Love
2004-09-27T16:25:32Z

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:21 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:

> I have just looked quickly at the inotify backend this weekend, so not
> really clued up yet, so excuse the stupid question: Does this mean
> inotify is now up to par with dnotify/poll feature wise? Or should we
> still look at getting inotify backend to use poll?

inotify supports poll in the sense that you can poll() or select()
on /dev/inotify.

dnotify does not support poll() at all (it is signal based), so your
question is kind of confusing.

I cannot think of any features that dnotify has that inotify does not.

Robert Love