Re: inotify and /proc?

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:51:10PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
 
> No, clearly inotify on all files in /proc is not the right thing to
> do.  But I'm writing support for "RDNSS in RA" -- IPv6 Router
> Advertisement messages can include a DNS server specification, which
> makes IPv6 completely autoconfiguring.

Why the hell do you need idiotify on it?  Just make poll(2) work and
be done with that; see e.g. how /proc/<pid>/mounts does it.
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