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Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.
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Nix |
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Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support. |
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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:46:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
On 5 Oct 2012, Eli Zaretskii stated:
>> Of course you can't rely on inotify rather than polling, because inotify
>> simply silently omits all changes that come from other hosts when an fs
>> is mounted or exported over the network. inotify and friends are only
>> spying on local VFS traffic
>
> If this is true (I don't see this limitation in the inotify(7) man
> page), it is specific to inotify. The MS-Windows equivalents work for
> exported filesystems as well.
Yeah, it's specific to inotify/dnotify and anything built atop the
fsnotify Linux kernel subsystem. It is really annoying for those of us
with $HOME on NFS :( I periodically wish I had the time to write
something better, but it's quite hard.
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- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/04
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Eli Zaretskii, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.,
Nix <=
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Óscar Fuentes, 2012/10/05
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Nix, 2012/10/06
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Achim Gratz, 2012/10/07
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Stefan Monnier, 2012/10/07
- Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support., Achim Gratz, 2012/10/07