Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261253AbVCFAKa (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:10:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261273AbVCFAHK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:07:10 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:32653 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261242AbVCFAEK (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:04:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:04:09 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Robert Love Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , John McCutchan , torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11 Message-ID: <20050306000409.GD31261@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Robert Love , Linux Kernel Mailing List , John McCutchan , torvalds@osdl.org References: <1109961444.10313.13.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109961444.10313.13.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 893 Lines: 20 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:37:24PM -0500, Robert Love wrote: > Below is inotify, diffed against 2.6.11. > > I greatly reworked much of the data structures and their interactions, > to lay the groundwork for sanitizing the locking. I then, I hope, > sanitized the locking. It looks right, I am happy. Comments welcome. > I surely could of missed something. Maybe even something big. > > But, regardless, this release is a huge jump from the previous, fixing > all known issues and greatly improving the locking. > The user interface is still bogus. Also now version of it has stayed in -mm long enough because bad bugs pop up almost weekly. - 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/