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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


  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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