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Re: inotify support.

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:13:35PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:07 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> > The fact that these are the prototypes for the system calls doesn't
> > necessarily mean we should use the same for the userlevel code.  The
> > question is: is there the *potential* that any of the interfaces might
> > need to be extended?  I think the only contender would be the MASK
> > parameter of inotify_add_watch.  If yes, we probably should use
> > something wider than a 32 bit type.
> 
> Requiring more than 32-bits would mean we triple the number of available
> events.  I do not see that happening.

All that would take would be someone coming up with a new, creative use
of inotify that you haven't thought of yet.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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