From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264129AbUEKVly (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 17:41:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264155AbUEKVly (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 17:41:54 -0400 Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.101]:7665 "EHLO pimout2-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264129AbUEKVlv (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 May 2004 17:41:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:41:48 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alexander Larsson Cc: John McCutchan , Nautilus , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement Message-ID: <20040511214148.GA7299@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <1084152941.22837.21.camel@vertex> <20040510021141.GA10760@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1084227460.28663.8.camel@vertex> <20040511024701.GA19489@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1084287762.19104.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1084287762.19104.135.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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