Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:40:18 +0100 | Subject | Re: dnotify/inotify and vfs questions |
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On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:23 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > <receive some request>... > if (any_dnotify_or_inotify_events_pending) { > read_dnotify_or_inotify_events(); > if (any_events_related_to(file)) { > store_in_userspace_stat_cache(file, stat(file)); > } > } > stat_info = lookup_userspace_stat_cache(file); > > Now that's a silly way to save one system call in the fast path by itself.
I'm not that familiar with inotify internals but doesn't read_dnotify_or_inotify_events() or any_dnotify_or_inotify_events_pending() involve a syscall?
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