From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261390AbVGDQJL (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:09:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261165AbVGDQH7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:07:59 -0400 Received: from ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.130]:50410 "EHLO ppsw-0.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261390AbVGDQAm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2005 12:00:42 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Subject: RE: Problem with inotify From: Anton Altaparmakov To: Gautam Singaraju Cc: "'Daniel Drake'" , "'David =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F3mez=27?=" , "'Robert Love'" , "'John McCutchan'" , "'Linux-kernel'" In-Reply-To: <200507041555.j64FtFL4010937@ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com> References: <200507041555.j64FtFL4010937@ms-smtp-04-eri0.southeast.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Computing Service, University of Cambridge, UK Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:00:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1120492832.11399.24.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk> 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 Gautam, On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:55 -0400, Gautam Singaraju wrote: > I had used the 2.6.12 kernel with the latest Inotify. There was no > "I_WILL_FREE" in the any place. And, there was no problem in compilation. Er, yes, obviously. You are not using my patch on top of inotify and original inotify does not use I_WILL_FREE. You are answering somewhat out of context... > I believe Inotify is very useful and should be included in the next versions > of the kernel. Are there any ongoing plans for this? I cannot answer this. Robert/John? However there appear to be issues with it at the moment (the umount problems with ntfs volumes) so probably not quite yet unless we figure out the problems... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/