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Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.


From: Nix
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added inotify support.
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:46:23 +0100
User-agent: 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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