Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 2004 22:17:45 +1000 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] inotify -- a dnotify replacement |
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:52:44 +0200 nf <nf2@scheinwelt.at> wrote: > > I would even claim, that simple polling ("stat"-ing) the filesystem for > changes is more efficient in 95% of the cases, than all this dnotify, > fam, etc... stuff.
Not if you want power savings in your idle loop ...
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