Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> I don't think so. As discussed, >> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can >> differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify. >> > > And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded > performance overhead. >
If the performance using a local loopback is insufficient, or even when using a UNIX domain socket, then it's going to be even worse for the actual network-connected clients. And the cases were it doesn't work amount to poor system administration, which is a solvable problem. >> This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or >> more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all. >> > > Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty... Amusing, but irrelevant to programming. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
