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    SubjectRe: [patch] inotify, improved.
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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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