Talk:Inotify

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Should inotify begin with a lowercase i? the article currently uses an uppercase but besides wikipedia I have only seen it referred to with a lowercase i. Jdufresne 00:34, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Should email rml and ask. 130.57.22.69 21:41, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] My edit

AFAIK this information is accurate but it is based on the information on getting an inotify kernel to work at the Beagle website. If anyone knows anything more detailed then don't hesitate to obliterate my stuff in favour of more accurate info.

[edit] Accuracy of the disadvantages

Having researched inotify a bit, I don't understand why the article states these supposed disadvantages as facts, especially given that Rlove himself has edited the article. Before, he has stated: "Making it easy and efficient to watch a full tree, however, was a goal of inotify." [1] He has also given an algorithm for subdirectory recursion that would appear race-free [2] In any case, the claims should be referenced. --TuukkaH 21:25, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that limitation is not real and the algorithm to perform recursive watching with inotify is trivial. I am going to remove it.

[edit] Usability of INotify

If this is such a great subsystem, why can't I get any information surrunding the event? (pid/user/time/anything else) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.42.218.2 (talk) 20:42, 7 February 2008 (UTC)