From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261998AbUEJWc7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:32:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262014AbUEJWcP (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:32:15 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([69.30.125.51]:43668 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261989AbUEJWbn (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2004 18:31:43 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:31:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com To: John McCutchan cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement In-Reply-To: <1084227460.28663.8.camel@vertex> Message-ID: References: <1084152941.22837.21.camel@vertex> <20040510021141.GA10760@taniwha.stupidest.org> <1084227460.28663.8.camel@vertex> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 10 May 2004, John McCutchan wrote: > > 3) dnotify cannot easily watch changes for a directory hierarchy > > People don't seem to really care about this one. Alexander Larsson has > said he doesn't care about it. It might be nice to add in the future. Please excuse my ignorance, but who is Alexander Larsson? A dnotify replacement that does not have the ability to watch for a hierarchy is pretty much useless. Or do you want to drop thousands of single watches to accomplish that? - Davide