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[Daniel Veillard]

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

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