Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:13 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, john@johnmccutchan.com,
       arnd@arndb.de, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, hch@lst.de, rlove@rlove.org,
       linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pavel@suse.cz,
       Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall (davidn@davidnewall.com) wrote:
> 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.

And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded
performance overhead.

> 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.

Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty...

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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