Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

Okay, now you're asking me to consider a system-wide daemon
independent of systemd.  It has to run with root privileges so it has
access to everyone's repositories, which means that people have to
trust it beyond doubt.  What does it do?  It has a generic API to
watch filesystem paths and report events over an IP socket.  Do you
think that this will only be useful to git?  Every other version
control system (and presumably many other pieces of software) will
want to use it.  One huge downside I see of making this part of
systemd is Ubuntu.  They've decided not to use systemd for some
unfathomable reason.

After some thought, I've decided that extending systemd is not the way
to go.  And the dbus API is really an overkill.  Writing a simple
system-wide daemon shouldn't be a challenge; the hard part is getting
git to use it properly.