On 01/14/2015 04:13 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: > Thread safety -- file and mount monitors are currently known to be > crash-prone due to races. > > This has become particularly problematic since GDesktopAppInfo started > using them from the GLib worker thread to watch for changes to desktop > files. > > Due to the inotify-kernel changes on that branch, however, one measure > of performance is definitely improved: file notifications will now > arrive immediately, instead of after a hardwired delay.
Makes sense, thanks! Does anything rely on the delay that happens in the current system? For example, is it used to coalesce an open(O_CREAT)/rename() into a single signal emission? -- Christian _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
