From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
zab@zabbo.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:57:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119056256.7280.27.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506180205.08366.arnd@arndb.de>
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 02:05 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> An explanation along the lines of "neither ioctl on cdev nor a syscall
> based approach is made everyone happy, so we decided to stick with the
> one that is already used" might give a little more insight.
I will add exactly this to the FAQ, thank you.
I suspect this is the situation that /dev/epoll faced, although in the
case of epoll, the opening the device did not have any real significance
(you would generally not restrict access and you would only open the
device once).
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-18 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 17:18 [patch] inotify Robert Love
2005-06-16 17:52 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-16 18:25 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2005-06-17 1:35 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:15 ` [patch] inotify, improved Robert Love
2005-06-17 15:37 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 15:44 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 16:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-17 16:29 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 16:36 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 16:43 ` Chris Wright
2005-06-17 16:46 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2005-06-17 16:40 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 17:57 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:20 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:54 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 17:56 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 18:15 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:17 ` Zach Brown
2005-06-17 17:07 ` [patch] inotify Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-17 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:12 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 18:16 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:38 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 18:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-17 18:54 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 17:56 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-17 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 21:40 ` Robert Love
2005-06-17 23:52 ` Robert Love
2005-06-21 0:51 ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21 2:15 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21 2:29 ` Neil Brown
2005-06-21 2:43 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-21 15:55 ` Robert Love
2005-07-14 0:25 ` Neil Brown
2005-07-14 4:11 ` John McCutchan
2005-06-18 0:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-18 0:57 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-06-18 1:51 ` Chris Wedgwood
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-09 16:05 Robert Love
2005-05-09 17:43 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-01-06 20:00 Robert Love
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