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Re: inotify support.
- From: Robert Love <rlove at rlove dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:22:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: inotify support.
- References: <20050817203912.32AB7180988@magilla.sf.frob.com>
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:39 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> libc supports things of general use and with ABI compatibility, more or
> less forever. This is a specialized facility whose details are not all
> that unlikely to change. The more things thrown into libc, the harder it
> is to usefully track the real dependencies programs have on interfaces.
We definitely do not intend for inotify to change.
Robert Love