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From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: nf2@scheinwelt.at
Cc: cw@f00f.org, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, nautilus-list@gnome.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:17:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511221745.7b0fe8f3.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084276364.4081.63.camel@lilota.lamp.priv>

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On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:52:44 +0200 nf <nf2@scheinwelt.at> wrote:
>
> I would even claim, that simple polling ("stat"-ing) the filesystem for
> changes is more efficient in 95% of the cases, than all this dnotify,
> fam, etc... stuff.

Not if you want power savings in your idle loop ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-11 12:19 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 [this message]
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
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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