Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 2004 21:11:03 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement |
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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 06:41:40PM -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
> Alexander Larsson is the maintainer of nautilus, gnome-vfs and I > think the dnotify patch for fam. He made a post to l-k a month or > two ago about why he doesn't care about it. I do plan on adding this > feature in the near future though.
I found the posting, it doesn't explain why dnotify using signals is bad and I still don't see how inotify makes the situation any better.
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