rawhide report: 20050810 changes

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 17:14:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:19:11AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
 > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:13:53AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 06:19:00PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
 > >  > On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:15:23AM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
 > >  > > > - Rewrite of the inotify back-end, reduce resources usage, tuning in
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Does this mean that inotify is now in the kernel?
 > >  > 
 > >  >   I don't think so, davej is the ultimate person to answer when this will
 > >  > hit us, but I expect it will be in Fedora Core 5, so ...
 > >  
 > > It will definitly appear in FC5.  I'll likely backport 2.6.13 to FC4
 > > a little while after it gets released, and *maybe* to FC3 too.
 > 
 >   Hum, I didn't expect to push more gamin updates to FC3, for FC3 my
 > main goal was to fix the last perceived desktop bugs related to 
 > dnotify/gamin.

Well, you don't *have* to push an update for FC3 even if inotify does
end up in the kernel there. dnotify will continue to work as it always did.

		Dave




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