Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9

[Nicholas Miell]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 19:29, Robert Love wrote:
> I think we want a solution that works well for both cases.
> 
> E.g., we have a few different needs:
> 
> 	- Stuff like Spotlight-esque automatic Indexers.
> 	- File manager notifications
> 	- Other GUI notifications (desktop, menus, etc.)
> 	- To prevent polling (e.g. /proc/mtab)
> 	- Existing dnotify users
> 
> dnotify is pretty lame for any of the above situations.  Even for
> something as trivial as watching the current open directory in Nautilus,
> look at the hoops we have to just through with FAM.
> 
> And dnotify utterly falls apart on removable media or for any "large"
> sort of job, e.g. indexing.

Isn't this the problem that XDSM/DMAPI is supposed to solve? Or is that
one of those specs that's too ugly to be implemented?

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