Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u] | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:24:08 -0400 |
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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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