Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status

From: Robert Love
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 10:45:31 EST


On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 11:26 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > inotify
> >
> > There are still concerns about the userspace API and internal
> > implementation details. More slogging needed.
>
> We should ask hpa what he needs for kernel.org. Ideally kernel.org
> probably wants <something> that facilitates listening to <something> for
> a list of files being changed. That would greatly speed up the robots,
> and possibly rsync-like activities too.

I've talked to some people who've hooked inotify into rsync
successfully. Cool hack.

Robert Love


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