On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:05:55AM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>
> it is not needed, fam in cooker (and in rawhide) directly uses dnotify
> which is the linux standard way of kernel notify (similar to imon).
But fam still appears to be polling for file/directory changes:
http://brian.interlinx.bc.ca/strace.fam
And I don't see any SIGIOs at all which according to
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/dnotify.txt.html is dnotify's
mechanism to signal a change to the directory.
Why is this?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
