On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 3:54 AM Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > It's way more useful to have these in the notification than > > > obtainable > > > via fsinfo() IMHO. > > > > What is it useful for? > > Only to verify that you have seen all the notifications. > > If you have to grab that info with a separate call then the count > isn't necessarily consistent because other notifications can occur > while you grab it. No, no no. The watch queue will signal an overflow, without any additional overhead for the normal case. If you think of this as a protocol stack, then the overflow detection happens on the transport layer, instead of the application layer. The application layer is responsible for restoring state in case of a transport layer error, but detection of that error is not the responsibility of the application layer. Thanks, Miklos
