inotify

Posted Jul 27, 2006 9:35 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: inotify by drag
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

... except of course that if you're a poor sod whose home directory is mounted over the network (perhaps from a centralized RAIDed fileserver), then, oops, the damn thing falls back to polling (over a network!)

Apparently its inability to send notifications to other copies of itself over the network is a *feature*, but given that you're using NFS or a similar fs in any case, I can't imagine what extra security threats could be opened by sending notifications around. (FAM could do this.)