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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.
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
51      file bar would pop poll() on both fd's, but there would be no way to tell
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
62      to manage and block on 1000 fd's via select?
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.