Re: No error when inotify_add_watch(/an/NFS/file)

2007-11-24 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 08:11:45PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:20:55PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: >>> Dear Experts, >>> >>> NFS doesn't work with inotify (and it looks like it can't, certainly not >>> before NFS v4.1). However, if I give an

Re: No error when inotify_add_watch(/an/NFS/file)

2007-11-24 Thread Phil Endecott
J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:20:55PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: Dear Experts, NFS doesn't work with inotify (and it looks like it can't, certainly not before NFS v4.1). However, if I give an NFS filename to inotify_add_watch(), I don't get an error. If it indicated an

Re: No error when inotify_add_watch(/an/NFS/file)

2007-11-24 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:20:55PM +, Phil Endecott wrote: > Dear Experts, > > NFS doesn't work with inotify (and it looks like it can't, certainly not > before NFS v4.1). However, if I give an NFS filename to > inotify_add_watch(), I don't get an error. > > If it indicated an error in this

No error when inotify_add_watch(/an/NFS/file)

2007-11-23 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear Experts, NFS doesn't work with inotify (and it looks like it can't, certainly not before NFS v4.1). However, if I give an NFS filename to inotify_add_watch(), I don't get an error. If it indicated an error in this case then I could easily fall back to some sort of polling. Without an