Notify support removed

Heinrich Mislik Heinrich.Mislik at univie.ac.at
Mon Sep 17 11:24:50 GMT 2007


On 14 Sep 2007 at 16:24, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for clarifying this. I can live with that.

Cheers

Heinrich
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