Inotify
Pete, I would suggest making any inotify functionality completely optional, as some filesystems don’t support it and not all kernels have support either.
The fact that upstart doesn’t work without it is extremely annoying sometimes (last checked in Dapper; may have been fixed since).
May 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am
[…] INotify I looked into this for a while, and read Andy’s blog post. I was always a little sceptical about inotify anyway. It seems as if there is a bug in the feisty inotify python bindings, which was a non starter to begin with. I managed to fix this problem, and I am liaising with people to see if this is a real bug. Secondly, it relied on me having to poll regularly, according to the example anyway. Thirdly, after reading Andy’s post I was convinced that inotify wasn’t the way to go. So the Refresh Config button stays. […]