From: Pascal Schmidt <der.eremit@email.de>
To: nf2@scheinwelt.at
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Nonotify 0.3.2 (A simple dnotify replacement)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:29:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ByrTz-00003r-8U@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2vRn8-1D3-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:40:06 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:
> 2) The /dev/nonotify device:
>
> /dev/nonotify has the only purpose to offer a special stat() call via
> ioctl to read the contents_mtime field of directories (together with
> atime, mtime, ctime). The client has to set the 'filename' field of the
> 'nonotify_stat' structure and receives the four timespec fields updated
> via ioctl.
A lot of people here (Linus, for instance) frown on ioctl() interfaces.
They're hard to do right in 32/64bit compat layers, for example. How
about using a syscall interface instead?
--
Ciao,
Pascal
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-22 12:30 UTC|newest]
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2004-08-22 12:29 ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]
2004-08-22 13:34 ` Nonotify 0.3.2 (A simple dnotify replacement) nf
2004-08-22 16:04 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-08-22 3:37 nf
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