Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f93EWeA15582 for fam-outgoing; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:32:40 -0700 Received: from devserv.devel.redhat.com (nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com [199.183.24.200]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f93EWcD15579 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:32:38 -0700 Received: from localhost (alexl@localhost) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f93EWZ824322; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:32:36 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: devserv.devel.redhat.com: alexl owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:32:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Alex Larsson X-X-Sender: To: Carsten Haitzler cc: Subject: Re: [fam] Fam race condition In-Reply-To: <20011003092110.7ac0f5ff.raster@rasterman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-fam@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > likely they havent heavily tested the "polling" mode - and rely on the kernel > layer (imon) to do the work. i think they assume you knwo that polling mode isnt > 100% reliable (could miss a file appear and dissapear if it does it between > polls and more) so it wan't an issue to look into. > > at least that's what i assume was the case :) This has nothing to do with polling mode. (Well. The bug exists there too, but is much harder to trigger.) / Alex -- Source code, list archive, and docs: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe fam | mail majordomo@oss.sgi.com