On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:52:57PM -0700, Mitch Skinner wrote:
> >From the Beta 1 announcement:
> > Generic Feature Additions
> >
> > o inotify (2.6.13)
> >
> > o works through a new character pseudo-device. Any
> > application which wants to monitor filesystem
> > activity need only open /dev/inotify and issue one
> > of two syscalls to it.
>
> It was my understanding that /dev/inotify had
> gone away in favor of the inotify_init syscall.
>
> I think it happened before the inotify patch got
> merged into mainline. Can anyone shed light on
> this one?
That one slipped past the release note reviewers, and wasn't caught in time
for the beta release.
You are correct, Make like /dev/inotify never happened :-)
Dave
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