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4 Inotify - A Powerful yet Simple File Change Notification System
13 	- Deleted obsoleted interface, just refer to manpages for user interface.
23    This solves the primary problem with dnotify: keeping the file open pins
29    What is the design decision behind using an-fd-per-instance as opposed to
30    an fd-per-watch?
33    An fd-per-watch quickly consumes more file descriptors than are allowed,
35    select()-able.  Yes, root can bump the per-process fd limit and yes, users
38    spaces is thus sensible.  The current design is what user-space developers
41    thousand times is silly.  If we can implement user-space's preferences
42    cleanly--and we can, the idr layer makes stuff like this trivial--then we
47    fd returns all watch events and also any potential out-of-band data.  If
50    - There would be no way to get event ordering.  Events on file foo and
56    - We'd have to maintain n fd's and n internal queues with state,
60    - User-space developers prefer the current API.  The Beagle guys, for
64    - No way to get out of band data.
66    - 1024 is still too low.  ;-)
74    need not be a one-fd-per-process mapping; it is one-fd-per-queue and a
81    The poor user-space interface is the second biggest problem with dnotify.
84    file descriptor-based one that allows basic file I/O and poll/select.