Re: Bug#90867: Menu is more important than it would seem
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:53:37PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > But if you only care about one file, then it's not a problem at all.
>
> But there is no way to tell the kernel to only look at that one file. If you
> have multiple files in that one directory, and any one of them changed, you
> have to walk the entire list.
Why not just stat the file you care about?
> If you remove directory notification from your program, then it is back to
> implementing a stat()/sleep() call.
That should be the fallback solution when either directory notification is
nonexistant, or if the file is hardlinked.
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