Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0

[Robert Love]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:40 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:

> If the ioctl() based interface is so bad, we could change it to a
> write() based interface.

What baffles me is that a write() interface is infinitely more type
unsafe, arbitrary, and uncontrolled than an ioctl() one.

	Robert Love


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