long running sessions, restarts, etc.

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> at the risk of getting myself in trouble - you don't have to do it
>> at the rpm layer... You could do it in yum or in a yum plugin and
>> then not have to worry about propagating it up the stack.
>
> The alternative is to have apps set inotify watches on their own
> binaries, I suppose. (There was something in Fedora that used to
> do this.)

wow, that would be, umm, special.

How well does inotify cope with THOUSANDS of watches?

-sv