Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

Robert Love
2005-06-17T16:29:27Z

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:11 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....

Yah, no one would expect otherwise. One nice feature of it would be
able to see if the pid is equal to a known pid, say yourself or some
worker process.

But I've also received requests to send the size and offset of a
read/write, the user, etc. etc. I just say no.

Robert Love