Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> If nfsd applies a modification and it's not reflected with some inotify
>> event, I think that's a bug that the kernel developers would want to fix.
> They don't care. If an event doesn't come through the normal VFS layers,
> inotify won't see it, and that's that.

But that's a bug in nfsd, still.

> Oh yes, indeed. I'm just arguing against ripping out polling and
> replacing it with inotify, really:

I have no intention to rip out polling.  Rather I hope that the
higher-level API we come up with can be implemented by any of Windows's
low-level API, inotify, MacOSX's equvalent, or polling.


        Stefan