Excerpts from Mike Mestnik's message of 2013-01-06 16:06:49 UTC: > Why bother with inotify: The is the huge problem with community driven > software. Performance is always given the right of way, stability and > usefulness are not universally considered important. > > If there is a *single situation where a feature doesn’t function then > every application that makes use of this feature needs to either exit > with error or handle a warning. This bug is about "When using tail on > the liveCD some updates are not reported.", not about the lack of > inotify support. The lack of inotify is a different bug, the issue here > is that this one software package doesn’t appropriately handle cases > were inotify doesn’t function as it should. > > I've no problems with an application that makes use of inotify, I've an > issue with applications expect inotify to always be available even on > Overlwayfs/3.0.0-12-generic.
Its not that inotify is missing, its that overlayfs is falsely claiming that inotify works. Applications which implement inotify can fall back to polling, *if* the inotify calls fail.. which they do not on overlayfs. So you see, the bug is already fixed in tail, but it is well and truly broken in overlayfs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/882147 Title: overlayfs does not implement inotify interfaces correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/882147/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
