linux-kernel - No error when inotify_add

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Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:20:55 +0000
From:	"Phil Endecott" <phil_wueww_endecott@...zphil.org>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: No error when inotify_add_watch(/an/NFS/file)

Dear Experts,

NFS doesn't work with inotify (and it looks like it can't, certainly 
not before NFS v4.1).  However, if I give an NFS filename to 
inotify_add_watch(), I don't get an error.

If it indicated an error in this case then I could easily fall back to 
some sort of polling.  Without an error, I need some other way to 
detect NFS (and any other non-inotify-compatible filesystems).

Any thoughts?

Phil.

(If you Cc: me in any replies I'll see them sooner.)

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