From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O9o5r-0007AY-TP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 23:33:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 00D84E088B; Wed, 5 May 2010 23:33:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f212.google.com (mail-bw0-f212.google.com [209.85.218.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E98E088B for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 23:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so975446bwz.26 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:33:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=1oo/0aocvHTLifeSvAppEcQ7mip6PZeePK0OEE7r9aA=; b=n0pSKvie5sLO0sU2fx2W3MpvffLgff/VzI2sIAP2WtS/SrK0iBDU0xGBj+I+tvKCGP OECJh0TzMolxoiqZxLba8oaXPyIE81d6BMX094MEd2GjKC8hUB+VgCikq2V8Mb9JZ6LD 1ce4R3T7C+y4a7h3tI22ZBQLNbStiLoKg9AKQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=BpiKpFunbrwbRSzcRPGvGaXp9G92XFMycP7+19WDjyTA/6NZszYVUHW2WpQNe3t9EU 6jiIa9nBkj2WojbTx8HUcvKyXluKxsdbZ+nzLkH4m6yv/f3jp+XyKYxznF3hBTKbM2NM 49uGTR5/gO1bN0e2OqkHVtYtLQgku8g3sZsks= Received: by 10.204.36.208 with SMTP id u16mr1177195bkd.168.1273102390651; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (p5DCC1252.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.204.18.82]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm120806bwz.4.2010.05.05.16.33.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 May 2010 16:33:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 01:33:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33.3r4; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1273042474.20354.17.camel@localhost> <1273043561.24807.40.camel@troll> <1273102145.20354.25.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1273102145.20354.25.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005060133.06402.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 45b2bf26-34af-4ce0-9ea0-e6921fbe1581 X-Archives-Hash: be7112d7e181f2e5275af24e0146813c On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently > > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam. > > dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would > prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify also uses a file > descripter per watched item, which could get interesting for large > amounts of watches! > > I'm not sure about FAM, but Gamin uses inotify or dnotify anyway (in > Linux). I think they're all designed in a similar way: you have to > register a whole bunch of files or directories to watch. > > thanks, oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug ridden zombie is still around?