On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:17:42PM +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:15:23AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > > Does this mean that inotify is now in the kernel? And if so, why is > > inotify so important? > > As far as I have figured, because dnotify sucks for directories. s/ for directories// dnotify can only watch directories ! Yeah if you want to watch /tmp/mylog you get an event to process each time anything changes in /tmp for example. dnotify_sucks++ the counter is pretty high at that point... that far from being the only issue. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
