From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261233AbUBTNiT (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:38:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261226AbUBTNe5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:34:57 -0500 Received: from uslink-66.173.43-133.uslink.net ([66.173.43.133]:10503 "EHLO dingdong.cryptoapps.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261208AbUBTNbl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:31:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:31:39 -0800 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jamie Lokier , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Tridge , "H. Peter Anvin" , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Eureka! (was Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity) Message-ID: <20040220133139.GA28230@dingdong.cryptoapps.com> References: <20040219182948.GA3414@mail.shareable.org> <20040219200554.GE31035@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040219204853.GA4619@mail.shareable.org> <20040220000054.GA5590@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:24:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That said, who actually _uses_ dnotify? The only time dnotify seems > to come up in discussions is when people complain how badly designed > it is, and I don't think I've ever heard anybody say that they use > it and that they liked it ;) I have code which watches maildir mailboxes using dnotify and it works great. I'm not sure I love dnotify but for this purpose it works very well. --cw