Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.

David Newall
2008-11-26T12:47:43Z

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15:38AM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
>
>> This still doesn't provide a reason for anyone to be interested in the
>> code! Why do we want pids in inotify messages?
>>
>
> my application has to
> differentiate IO made by itself and any IO made by system (another
> users, crons, whatever else)

I don't think so. As discussed,
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can
differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify.

This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or
more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all.