On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:23 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> <receive some request>...
> if (any_dnotify_or_inotify_events_pending) {
> read_dnotify_or_inotify_events();
> if (any_events_related_to(file)) {
> store_in_userspace_stat_cache(file, stat(file));
> }
> }
> stat_info = lookup_userspace_stat_cache(file);
>
> Now that's a silly way to save one system call in the fast path by itself.
I'm not that familiar with inotify internals but doesn't
read_dnotify_or_inotify_events() or
any_dnotify_or_inotify_events_pending() involve a syscall?
Ian.
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