Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266218AbUJETx5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:53:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265768AbUJETuh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:50:37 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:224 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265800AbUJETq7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:46:59 -0400 Subject: Re: /dev/misc/inotify 0.11 From: Robert Love To: David Busby Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <82C88232E64C7340BF749593380762021166F3@seattleexchange.SMC.LOCAL> References: <82C88232E64C7340BF749593380762021166F3@seattleexchange.SMC.LOCAL> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:45:24 -0400 Message-Id: <1097005524.4429.13.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: 887 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:55 -0700, David Busby wrote: In the future please CC me and John McCutchan on inotify bugs if you can. Or respond to an existing inotify thread. I almost missed this. Thanks. > 1> When I say `cat /dev/misc/inotify' my machine stops responding > instantly. I've not had a chance to see what happens. I know I'll not > normally say that but when I say something else dumb like cat > /dev/misc/rtc cat will simply wait, not choke up my whole system. I cannot reproduce this. `cat /dev/inotify` simply blocks in inotify_read(). You use devfs? Can you try it without that? 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/