PATCH: inotifyd.c: Implement a builtin 'echo' command

[Flemming Madsen]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
>> Yes it works .. At the cost of a fork+exec per outputted line!
>
>  Or not, if you have configured bb to prefer applets.
>
>  Anyway, have you encountered a real case where you needed "inotifyd echo"
> functionality, and the fork+exec cost was prohibitive ? If you have, then
> your patch is a good thing (and would be even better with a config option
> whether or not to include the functionality). If you have not, then it is
> just creeping featurism.
>
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I use it for a lua "multi tail" application in order to monitor the
dirs where the monitored files lies. And yes, I consider it a massive
overhead to do a full fork for each such reported event.
Creating a new config option for each 5 lines of code seems like
overkill to me. Especially when the change is transparent wrt.
function like here.

/Flemming