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Subject: [bug#33265] [WIP RFC v4] services: Add file system monitoring service.
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hello Danny,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Whoever doesn't handle inotify queue overflow uses the kernel API incorre=
ctly -
> it's not going to be reliable.

It seems that inotify and reliability don=E2=80=99t go together well anyway:

  http://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/21/correct-or-inotify-pick-one

So I don=E2=80=99t know if what you describe is a showstopper for Direvent
specifically, or if it=E2=80=99s just that things aren=E2=80=99t going to w=
ork
=E2=80=9Creliably=E2=80=9D anyway.

WDYT?

Ludo=E2=80=99.