2002-03-05 18:46:22

by Brian S Queen

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: dnotify for kernel 2.2

I have been going through the trouble of adding dnotify to our 2.2
kernel because we don't want to switch to 2.4 yet. I wonder:

How many folks are interested in dnotify for 2.2?

Is it a really bad idea?

Is imon really dead?

Brian McQueen
NAS Division
NASA/Ames


2002-03-05 19:00:03

by Arjan van de Ven

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: dnotify for kernel 2.2

In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> I have been going through the trouble of adding dnotify to our 2.2
> kernel because we don't want to switch to 2.4 yet. I wonder:
>
> How many folks are interested in dnotify for 2.2?
>
> Is it a really bad idea?

Does the 2.4 version actually work ?

2002-03-05 22:27:34

by Mike Fedyk

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: dnotify for kernel 2.2

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:57:47PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> you wrote:
> > I have been going through the trouble of adding dnotify to our 2.2
> > kernel because we don't want to switch to 2.4 yet. I wonder:
> >
> > How many folks are interested in dnotify for 2.2?
> >
> > Is it a really bad idea?
>
> Does the 2.4 version actually work ?

Isn't samba supposed to use that?

2002-03-06 01:02:25

by Alan

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: dnotify for kernel 2.2

> I have been going through the trouble of adding dnotify to our 2.2
> kernel because we don't want to switch to 2.4 yet. I wonder:

For the base kernel its non interesting but if it serves your purposes
and the work gets done thats what free software is all about

2002-03-06 01:37:08

by Ryan Cumming

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: dnotify for kernel 2.2

On March 5, 2002 10:57, [email protected] wrote:
> Does the 2.4 version actually work ?

If you have KDE installed:

1) Open a file manager window
2) From a console, 'touch foo'
3) Watch 'foo' appear in the file manager window
4) From a console, 'rm foo'
5) Watch 'foo' disppear again

Unless you have FAM running, that's dnotify at work.

-Ryan