From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932369AbVHKTCz (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:02:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932372AbVHKTCz (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:02:55 -0400 Received: from modeemi.modeemi.cs.tut.fi ([130.230.72.134]:18091 "EHLO modeemi.modeemi.cs.tut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932369AbVHKTCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:02:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:02:52 +0300 To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Chubb Subject: Re: fcntl(F_GETLEASE) semantics?? Message-ID: <20050811190252.GF31158@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> References: <20050811184144.GE31158@jolt.modeemi.cs.tut.fi> <1123786619.7095.47.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1123786619.7095.47.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi (Heikki Orsila) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:56:59PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > inotify does not give you synchronous notification. It just tells you > something has happened after the fact. Not the same thing at all. Then what could be done for inotify to fit the purpose? SETLEASE is still a bad interface for userspace programs because it relies on signals and thus can't be conveniently put into shared libraries.. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: heikki.orsila@iki.fi "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd