On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:15:45PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The difference between inotify and leases is, as I said, that leases > notify the lease holder synchronously. This allows the notified process > to flush all the cached information _before_ the operation that > triggered the lease notification is executed.
So you're talking about the kernel side.. I was talking about userspace perspective on the syscall. It would be rather odd to let a syscall block other applications involuntarily (and thus achieving synchronous action in your meaning).. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" http://www.iki.fi/shd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
