Notify support removed

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Sep 14 14:24:00 GMT 2007


On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:54:19PM +0200, Heinrich Mislik wrote:
> in 3.0.25 the parameter "change notify timeout" has been removed. 
> Does that mean, that notify is only supported when inotify is 
> available? Are there any plans to integrate the previous method 
> (polling) into the new notify subssystem?

No.

> I'm running samba under AIX and miss this feature.

Events generated internally from other smbds are properly
passed to the client. Without inotify (and FAM) we right now
don't get any of the events that unix or nfs processes
generate.

Volker
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