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Re: inotify support.
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:07 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> The fact that these are the prototypes for the system calls doesn't
> necessarily mean we should use the same for the userlevel code. The
> question is: is there the *potential* that any of the interfaces might
> need to be extended? I think the only contender would be the MASK
> parameter of inotify_add_watch. If yes, we probably should use
> something wider than a 32 bit type.
Requiring more than 32-bits would mean we triple the number of available
events. I do not see that happening.
Also, the same 32-bit mask is in the inotify_event structure (see
include/linux/inotify.h in the kernel tree), so we would have to change
that, too--which is not going to happen.
So I think that we are good.
Robert Love