Re: [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u]

[Robert Love]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 18:21 +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:

> I have just looked quickly at the inotify backend this weekend, so not
> really clued up yet, so excuse the stupid question:  Does this mean
> inotify is now up to par with dnotify/poll feature wise?  Or should we
> still look at getting inotify backend to use poll?

inotify supports poll in the sense that you can poll() or select()
on /dev/inotify.

dnotify does not support poll() at all (it is signal based), so your
question is kind of confusing.

I cannot think of any features that dnotify has that inotify does not.

	Robert Love


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