From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262011AbVFQQ31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262013AbVFQQ31 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:27 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:39578 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262011AbVFQQ3X (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] inotify, improved. From: Robert Love To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Chris Friesen , Nick Piggin , Zach Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , John McCutchan , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200506171611.j5HGBFY8012609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <1118855899.3949.21.camel@betsy> <42B1BC4B.3010804@zabbo.net> <1118946334.3949.63.camel@betsy> <42B227B5.3090509@yahoo.com.au> <1118972109.7280.13.camel@phantasy> <1119021336.3949.104.camel@betsy> <42B2EE31.9060709@nortel.com> <1119023078.3949.115.camel@betsy> <200506171611.j5HGBFY8012609@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1119025765.3949.118.camel@betsy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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