On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:15:39AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:31:57AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > ObNotifications: IMNSHGutFeeling it _screams_ "wrong interface chosen".
> >
> > You feel that signals are too
On Thu, 25 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:31:57AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > ObNotifications: IMNSHGutFeeling it _screams_ "wrong interface chosen".
>
> You feel that signals are too heavy-weight? You may be right. What
> interface would you prefer? A r
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:31:57AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> ObNotifications: IMNSHGutFeeling it _screams_ "wrong interface chosen".
You feel that signals are too heavy-weight? You may be right. What
interface would you prefer? A remember-missed-events poll? /dev/imon?
/proc/self/notifie
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Erez Zadok wrote:
> You bring an interesting point, however. With the new multiple mounting and
> vfsmount stuff, I hope that we're not re-introducing the same problems that
> directory hard-linking caused.
Erez, search the fsdevel archives, will you? Architecture
In message <8ghn4m$965$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ton Hospel writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This was discussed on IRC, but for those who weren't there it
> > should be clear that the current implementation uses dentries, so if you
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This was discussed on IRC, but for those who weren't there it
> should be clear that the current implementation uses dentries, so if you
> have a file which is hard-linked to appear in two different direc
Hi,
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +, Ton Hospel wrote:
> >
> > It delivers a realtime signal to tasks which have requested it. The task
> > can then call fstat to find out what changed.
> >
> A poll() notification mechanism should be at least as useful for e.g.
> GUI's who generally p
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> + if (!error)
> + if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)
> + vfs_poll_notify (inode, POLLWRINODE);
> + if (ia_valid & ~ATTR_SIZE)
> + vfs_poll_notify (inode, POLLCHANGEDINODE);
Oops.
'tis is very
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> How do you deal with the
>
> poll()
> do stuff
> poll()
>
> and a directory chage occuring during a 'do stuff' period
Erm... Keeping the time of last poll()-reported event in struct file, for
one? Not that I liked it that much, but IM
Alan Cox writes:
> How do you deal with the
>
> poll()
> do stuff
> poll()
>
> and a directory chage occuring during a 'do stuff' period
Check in the patch where I save some state (the event mask). Hm. I
recall answering this question before (can't remember who asked it,
thou
How do you deal with the
poll()
do stuff
poll()
and a directory chage occuring during a 'do stuff' period
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +, Ton Hospel wrote:
> > A poll() notification mechanism should be at least as useful for e.g.
> > GUI's who generally prefer to have synchronous notification.
>
> Alan mentioned there were fundamental problems with this, so I
> d
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 04:27:29PM +, Ton Hospel wrote:
> A poll() notification mechanism should be at least as useful for e.g.
> GUI's who generally prefer to have synchronous notification.
Alan mentioned there were fundamental problems with this, so I didn't
even bother investigating.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 03:31:29PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
>> I looked briefly at the patch, and I'm afraid I don't understand some basic
>> things. Perhaps you can let us (-fsdevel) all know the following (which you
>> should p
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