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[WIP RFC] services: Add file system monitor service.

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Message #44 received at 33265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 33265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33265] [WIP RFC v4] services: Add file system monitoring
 service.
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:22:39 +0100

Hello Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Whoever doesn't handle inotify queue overflow uses the kernel API incorrectly -
> it's not going to be reliable.

It seems that inotify and reliability don’t go together well anyway:

  http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/21/correct-or-inotify-pick-one

So I don’t know if what you describe is a showstopper for Direvent
specifically, or if it’s just that things aren’t going to work
“reliably” anyway.

WDYT?

Ludo’.

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