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Looking at inotify again

Looking at inotify again

Posted Jul 7, 2005 12:18 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617)
In reply to: Looking at inotify again by dvrabel
Parent article: Looking at inotify again

From what I understand, much of the motivation for writing inotify was to create a dnotify replacement that doesn't require open file descriptors on the watched object(s).

I don't know whether the fd thing is a typo here, but I can verify that using an inotify-enabled 2.6.12 with gamin doesn't result in the unmounting problems that famd and dnotify does.


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