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[bug#33265] [WIP RFC v4] services: Add file system monitoring service.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: [bug#33265] [WIP RFC v4] services: Add file system monitoring service.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:22:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> Whoever doesn't handle inotify queue overflow uses the kernel API incorrectly 
> -
> it's not going to be reliable.

It seems that inotify and reliability don’t go together well anyway:

  http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/21/correct-or-inotify-pick-one

So I don’t know if what you describe is a showstopper for Direvent
specifically, or if it’s just that things aren’t going to work
“reliably” anyway.

WDYT?

Ludo’.





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