Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267904AbUI1Ut0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:49:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267918AbUI1UtZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:49:25 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:53680 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267904AbUI1Use (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:48:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 From: Robert Love To: John McCutchan Cc: Andrew Morton , Ray Lee , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gamin-list@gnome.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, iggy@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1096404035.30123.22.camel@vertex> References: <1096250524.18505.2.camel@vertex> <20040926211758.5566d48a.akpm@osdl.org> <1096318369.30503.136.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1096350328.26742.52.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> <20040928120830.7c5c10be.akpm@osdl.org> <1096404035.30123.22.camel@vertex> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:47:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1096404433.4911.57.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 539 Lines: 16 On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:40 -0400, John McCutchan wrote: > If the ioctl() based interface is so bad, we could change it to a > write() based interface. What baffles me is that a write() interface is infinitely more type unsafe, arbitrary, and uncontrolled than an ioctl() one. Robert Love - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/