On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:56:59PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> inotify does not give you synchronous notification. It just tells you
> something has happened after the fact. Not the same thing at all.
Then what could be done for inotify to fit the purpose? SETLEASE is
still a bad interface for userspace programs because it relies on
signals and thus can't be conveniently put into shared libraries..
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