Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11

Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-06T00:10:30Z

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:37:24PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> Below is inotify, diffed against 2.6.11.
>
> I greatly reworked much of the data structures and their interactions,
> to lay the groundwork for sanitizing the locking. I then, I hope,
> sanitized the locking. It looks right, I am happy. Comments welcome.
> I surely could of missed something. Maybe even something big.
>
> But, regardless, this release is a huge jump from the previous, fixing
> all known issues and greatly improving the locking.
>

The user interface is still bogus. Also now version of it has stayed in
-mm long enough because bad bugs pop up almost weekly.