Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Wed Nov 26 2008 - 07:51:25 EST


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall (davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> I don't think so. As discussed,
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can
> differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify.

And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded
performance overhead.

> This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or
> more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all.

Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty...

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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