From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:43:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321114356.6340.qmail@stuge.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514AE1BF.3030605@gentoo.org> <20810.57629.196394.526922@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Should we make it a global flag?
Sure.
> What description is better:
>
> inotify - Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
> inotify - Enable inotify file change notification support
The former is more correct, because inotify provides notifications
for more than just file changes.
Samuli Suominen wrote:
> it should always be enabled with 'kernel_linux' and let the
> application itself do a runtime check if inotify is available or not
I think it's great if you are working on such patches for upstreams!
//Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-21 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-21 10:29 [gentoo-dev] Make inotify a global USE flag? Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 10:32 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 11:43 ` Peter Stuge [this message]
2013-03-21 12:02 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 12:10 ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 12:19 ` Sergey Popov
2013-03-21 12:26 ` Samuli Suominen
2013-03-21 13:33 ` Peter Stuge
2013-03-21 14:30 ` Tom Wijsman
2013-03-21 16:32 ` Michał Górny
2013-03-21 11:48 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-03-21 14:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-03-21 16:14 ` Alexander Berntsen
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