Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Nonotify 0.3.2 (A simple dnotify replacement) | Date | Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:29:59 +0200 | From | Pascal Schmidt <> |
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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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