Rusty Ballinger wrote:
>
> > You guys were very quiet about this patch....
>
> Yeah... that wasn't exactly the plan,
Hi, Rusty. Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately my stated intention to look at imon in "2-4 weeks time"
isn't looking good at present :-(
Am I right in my understanding that this facility tells interested
userland applications two main things:
1: That an executable is currently being executed and
2: That an inode has been altered?
If so, I'm wondering how much value number 1 provides. For desktop file
browsers, number 2 is more important?
Also, there are many, many other applications which could benefit from
number 2. Any sort of app which monitors logfiles or spool
directories. 'tail -f', come to that.
If I'm not missing something, have you considered splitting off feature
1 and submitting only the inode-mod feature? If this reduces the
intrusiveness of the kernel patch this may ease its path into the
mainstream release.
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