Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /dev/misc/inotify 0.11 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:45:24 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:55 -0700, David Busby wrote:
In the future please CC me and John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> on inotify bugs if you can. Or respond to an existing inotify thread. I almost missed this. Thanks.
> 1> When I say `cat /dev/misc/inotify' my machine stops responding > instantly. I've not had a chance to see what happens. I know I'll not > normally say that but when I say something else dumb like cat > /dev/misc/rtc cat will simply wait, not choke up my whole system.
I cannot reproduce this.
`cat /dev/inotify` simply blocks in inotify_read().
You use devfs? Can you try it without that?
Robert Love
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