Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] inotify, improved. | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:29:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:11 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the > userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....
Yah, no one would expect otherwise. One nice feature of it would be able to see if the pid is equal to a known pid, say yourself or some worker process.
But I've also received requests to send the size and offset of a read/write, the user, etc. etc. I just say no.
Robert Love
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