On Thu, 23.10.14 13:31, Philip Van Hoof (phi...@codeminded.be) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 23/10/2014 13:01, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote: > > [cut] > > >> I know it's a hard problem to solve, but if it's not solved with > >> the proposed solutions, the kernel developers shouldn't really be > >> accepting them. > > > > Well, if it doesn't work, fix it! IIRC you have a business interest > > in tracker. Kernel interfaces don't fix themselves magically. They > > usual get fixed if somebody scratches his own itch, or if somebody > > with a business interest pays somebody to scratch his itch... > > I think many people are reluctant to start working on this because the > kernel people don't know themselves yet what they would accept in the > kernel. But I agree it's a chicken and egg problem and probably in the > end even more a funding problem (or it just doesn't itch us enough).
Well, there's only one way to figure out what is acceptable in the end: starting working on it... > And then perhaps on top of that, in userspace, something like > fsevents. Or would the kernel world trust a coalescing fanotify enough > to allow unprivileged users of it? To my knowledge the plan has always been to open this up for unpriviliged processes eventually... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list