On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Really? Why have inotify then? I thought its only purpose is "to keep track > of the fs". If it is never a net win, why even use/provide it? Lots of programs want to monitor _one file_ or _one directory_. Cron daemons monitor /etc/cron.*/ , incron monitors /etc/incron.d/ , programs that watch mailspool directories can be made more efficient this way too. You might find your system today has perhaps a dozen inotify watches. Judiciously used, it's great. cheers m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx martin@xxxxxxxxxx -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
