From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
Nautilus <nautilus-list@gnome.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:41:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511214148.GA7299@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084287762.19104.135.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:02:42PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Its the single thing which forces users of dnotify to have an
> otherwise useless daemon.
fam? fam is useless for reasons other than dnotify.
> Signals are process global resources. As such, a library can't
> allocate them, so dnotify can't be used in a library.
That's simply bogus. Pass in the signal number to the library if
necessary. inotify sounds more like a hack to keep some gnome crap
happy than anything else.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-10 1:35 John McCutchan
2004-05-10 2:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-10 22:17 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-10 22:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-10 22:41 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-10 22:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-10 23:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-10 23:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-05-11 4:11 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-11 2:00 ` Ian Kent
2004-05-11 2:47 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-11 11:52 ` nf
2004-05-11 12:17 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-05-11 12:24 ` John McCutchan
[not found] ` <1084278605.3839.47.camel@carados.180sw.com>
[not found] ` <1084885604.4062.48.camel@lilota.lamp.priv>
[not found] ` <1085127066.20393.440.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2004-05-21 12:04 ` nf
2004-05-11 12:20 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-11 12:46 ` viro
2004-05-11 19:02 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-11 20:28 ` carbonated beverage
2004-05-11 21:28 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-11 15:02 ` Alexander Larsson
2004-05-11 21:41 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-05-12 12:38 ` Jörn Engel
2004-05-13 15:36 ` raven
2004-05-13 19:04 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-05-14 7:04 ` Ian Kent
2004-05-13 21:24 ` John McCutchan
2004-05-14 2:02 ` Ian Kent
2004-05-15 4:52 ` raven
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