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SubjectRe: Nonotify 0.3.2 (A simple dnotify replacement)
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:40:06 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> 2) The /dev/nonotify device:
>
> /dev/nonotify has the only purpose to offer a special stat() call via
> ioctl to read the contents_mtime field of directories (together with
> atime, mtime, ctime). The client has to set the 'filename' field of the
> 'nonotify_stat' structure and receives the four timespec fields updated
> via ioctl.

A lot of people here (Linus, for instance) frown on ioctl() interfaces.
They're hard to do right in 32/64bit compat layers, for example. How
about using a syscall interface instead?

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Ciao,
Pascal
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