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    SubjectRe: [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u]
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    On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:21 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:

    > I have just looked quickly at the inotify backend this weekend, so not
    > really clued up yet, so excuse the stupid question: Does this mean
    > inotify is now up to par with dnotify/poll feature wise? Or should we
    > still look at getting inotify backend to use poll?

    inotify supports poll in the sense that you can poll() or select()
    on /dev/inotify.

    dnotify does not support poll() at all (it is signal based), so your
    question is kind of confusing.

    I cannot think of any features that dnotify has that inotify does not.

    Robert Love


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