Re: [take2] Inotify: nested attributes support.

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:17:28PM +1030, David Newall (davidn-KzQzY1MbaKjAHznzqCTclw@public.gmane.org) wrote:
  

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I don't think so.  As discussed,
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122735413932519), you already can
differentiate I/O made by local users, so you don't need to modify inotify.
    

And as was shown it does not work for all cases and introduces unneded
performance overhead.
  

If the performance using a local loopback is insufficient, or even when
using a UNIX domain socket, then it's going to be even worse for the
actual network-connected clients.  And the cases were it doesn't work
amount to poor system administration, which is a solvable problem.

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This change violates my first rule of programming: If there's two or
more ways of solving a problem, pick one; don't pick them all.
    

Then we should go back to caves, raw meat was so tasty...

Amusing, but irrelevant to programming.
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