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Re: inotify support.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Robert Love <rlove at rlove dot org>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:39:12 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: inotify support.
libc supports things of general use and with ABI compatibility, more or
less forever. This is a specialized facility whose details are not all
that unlikely to change. The more things thrown into libc, the harder it
is to usefully track the real dependencies programs have on interfaces.