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From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/34] watch: use signalfd for Maildir watching
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Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> One of these days, I'm going to read through a series on this list and
> make a valuable technical comment :]  Until then...

No worries, your contributions are valuable regardless of
whether they're technical or not :>

> Eric Wong writes:
> 
> > We can get rid of the janky wannabe
> > self-using-a-directory-instead-of-pipe thing we needed to
> > workaround Filesys::Notify::Simple being blocking.
> >
> > For existing Maildir users, this should be more robust and
> > immune to missed wakeups for to signalfd and kqueue-enabled
> 
> s/for to/for/ ?

Thanks, will queue up some fixes along with your other comment.

There's deeper issues with this series w.r.t zombies for
existing Maildir users...