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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, John McCutchan wrote:

> Inotify is a replacement for dnotify. 
> 
> The main difference between this and my earlier inotify design, is that
> device numbers and inode numbers are no longer used. The interface
> between user and kernel space uses a watcher descriptor.
> 
> inotify is a char device with two ioctls
> 
> WATCH
> 	which takes 
> 
> 	struct inotify_watch_request {
> 	        char *dirname; // directory name
>         	unsigned long mask; // event mask
> 	};
> 
> 	and returns a watcher descriptor (int)

Does such descriptor supports poll(2) (... f_op->poll())?



- Davide