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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:17:28 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
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       Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:15:38AM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
>   
>> This still doesn't provide a reason for anyone to be interested in the
>> code!  Why do we want pids in inotify messages?
>>     
>  
> my application has to
> differentiate IO made by itself and any IO made by system (another
> users, crons, whatever else)

I don't think so.  As discussed,
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can
differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify.

This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or
more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all.
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