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Watching filesystem events with inotify

Posted Sep 30, 2004 14:18 UTC (Thu) by rjw (guest, #10415)
In reply to: Watching filesystem events with inotify by elanthis
Parent article: Watching filesystem events with inotify

I wasn't really asking about this specific case.
I was just wondering if this principle was still current...
it seems like new ioctl() calls are coming thick and fast.

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Posted Sep 30, 2004 20:10 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

ioctls are still frowned upon, yes. they just happen to have their uses.