Subject: Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

From: Martin Fick <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:26:12 -0700

On Sunday, February 10, 2013 12:03:00 pm Robert Zeh wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Junio C Hamano 
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]> writes:
> >> This is much better than Junio's suggestion to study
> >> possible implementations on all platforms and
> >> designing a generic daemon/ communication channel. 
> >> That's no weekend project.
> > 
> > It appears that you misunderstood what I wrote.  That
> > was not "here is a design; I want it in my system.  Go
> > implemment it".
> > 
> > It was "If somebody wants to discuss it but does not
> > know where to begin, doing a small experiment like
> > this and reporting how well it worked here may be one
> > way to do so.", nothing more.
> 
> What if instead of communicating over a socket, the
> daemon dumped a file containing all of the lstat
> information after git wrote a file? By definition the
> daemon should know about file writes.

But git doesn't, how will it know when the file is written?
Will it use inotify, or poll (kind of defeats the point)?

-Martin