Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:11 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

> It's also racy as hell.  By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....

Yah, no one would expect otherwise.  One nice feature of it would be
able to see if the pid is equal to a known pid, say yourself or some
worker process.

But I've also received requests to send the size and offset of a
read/write, the user, etc. etc.  I just say no.

	Robert Love


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