Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 2004 14:41:48 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement |
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On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:02:42PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Its the single thing which forces users of dnotify to have an > otherwise useless daemon.
fam? fam is useless for reasons other than dnotify.
> Signals are process global resources. As such, a library can't > allocate them, so dnotify can't be used in a library.
That's simply bogus. Pass in the signal number to the library if necessary. inotify sounds more like a hack to keep some gnome crap happy than anything else.
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