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Message-ID: <20081126125113.GA8921@ioremap.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:13 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, john@...nmccutchan.com,
arnd@...db.de, mtk.manpages@...il.com, hch@....de, rlove@...ve.org,
linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pavel@...e.cz, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall (davidn@...idnewall.com) wrote:
> I don't think so. As discussed,
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can
> differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify.
And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded
performance overhead.
> This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or
> more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all.
Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty...
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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