Re: [RFC][PATCH] Inotify kernel API

On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:24, Amy Griffis wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Timothy R. Chavez (tinytim(a)us.ibm.com) wrote: > > > The alternative approach is to embed Inotify watches in a per-client > > > specific watch, ie: > > > > Exactly, this can eliminate typeless interface, and is how other > > subsystems do things. > > It's my impression that John does not want to expose the inotify_watch > struct to kernel consumers. But maybe there's a way to handle it > that's better than what I proposed. Is there any particular reason why, if there were a kernel API for Inotify, that clients of that API should not be exposed to relevant Inotify structs like inotify_watch?