[systemd-devel] Offtopic question.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 03.01.13 20:06, Stef Bon (stefbon at gmail.com) wrote:

> Well, I'm working on notifyfs, a fuse fs which is a cache for gui clients
> and a filesystem event notifier. It uses inotify on linux to notify clients
> about changes. I want to be complete and add information about locks as
> well (new, changed and removed).

> On the localhost this requires monitoring the locks file.
> 
> But what do you mean by it's broken. I know it's not mandatory, so clients
> can ignore it. But is it totally useless??

It's about the semantics of the various APIs...

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking.html
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/locking2.html

Lennart

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