Hello, On Thu 27-03-14 14:50:24, Quentin Glidic wrote: > In GIO (GLib), the GFileMonitor[1] mechanism is using inotify for > local files. To detect file creation and some other weird cases, > they monitor the directory of the file and not the file directly > (see get_basename/get_dirname[2] usage). > > With sysfs, it does not work as expected for some reason. Well, I'm rather surprised inotify works with sysfs at all ;) Why do you need to watch sysfs? Udev is the tool with which you should generally look for e.g. new devices... Anyway, if you'd like to add fsnotify() support into sysfs, sysfs maintainer (Greg - added to CC) is the one to ask. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
