directory change notification patch

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:53:59AM +0000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Replying to myself once again :)
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback on this patch.  I believe that it makes 
> directory change notification much more useful and reliable than before 
> when combined with kernel change notifications.  It makes IIS5 run fine 
> off shares (IIS6 has been fixed to cope without reliable change 
> notifications), and as an obvious side effect explorer windows now 
> refresh automatically.
> 
> I would think that this probably ought to be a configuration option (off 
> by default), but I've not had time for that at present (I don't require 
> it).  If anyone is interested then I would be happy to do the additional 
> work to get the patch included.

This is something I was intending to get in for 3.0.12 but failed to make
the cut. Due to the brown-paper-bag nature of 3.0.13 it won't be in that,
but I'll put it very high on my list for 3.0.14.

Sorry it's taken so long.

Jeremy.