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Re: inotify support.
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:39 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> All that would take would be someone coming up with a new, creative use
> of inotify that you haven't thought of yet.
No, because by the same token, 64-bits might not be enough.
We thought long and hard about making the mask 64-bit in the kernel. We
picked 32-bit; it is more than big enough and makes portability simple.
Also, unless glibc is going to thunk every inotify_event structure into
a new inotify_event structure, with a u64 mask field, ushering in a
world of awful performance, it is a nonissue.
Robert Love