Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> If that hit can be reduced to a single call to stat() or fstat() (and
> >> I can't see why it can't) then I can't believe that amounts to much of
>
> > It can, and the performance hit is negligible IMHO. Heck, debian cron can
> > detect and reload configuration on the fly for a file and an entire
> > directory of files, and it does that check every minute. Nobody ever
> > complained, AFAIK.
>
> Linux 2.4 supports directory notification...
Yes, but it does so stupidly.
You can be notified when something changes in a directory, but it is up to you
to do an opendir(or rewinddir on a previously opened dir), and iterate thru
all the files, comparing with a previous list, to find what changed.
The 'api', as it were, only supports the notification. It has no payload to
go along with it.
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