Subj : Re: Idea: Filesystem signals
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Sun Aug 22 2004 05:46 pm

Adam enlightened us with:
>> Crap. I don't want to slow down each and every process in my
>> computer whenever any file changes. Most processes don't even want
>> to be notified of this.
>
> That's why I said nothing would happen unless the process provided a
> signal handler.

But you forget that there must be a *check* for that signal handler
first. This takes time, slowing down the computer. Every change in
every file would trigger a check on every process. Bad idea.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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