Bug 105650

Summary: glibc: pull in inotify from CVS
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Robert Love <rml>
Component: BasesystemAssignee: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
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Priority: P5 - None CC: meissner
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Description Robert Love 2005-08-18 18:49:46 UTC 
glibc CVS now officially supports inotify, with a sys/inotify.h header and the
syscall stubs.

Can we pull in support from CVS before 10.0?
Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-08-19 11:52:13 UTC 
First, glibc contains the stuff, but does not export them. Currently they
are unuseable. (t.c:(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `inotify_init').

Second, exporting them means we need an official symbol version. This does
not exist yet.

Third: The symbol version will be 2.4 (I doubt that Uli will use something
with 2.3.x). We will not add symbols from glibc 2.4 to glibc 2.3. This will
break dependency completly the RPM dependency handling.

If this all is fixed upstream, we will have it for 10.1 (in the hope until
then glibc 2.4 will be released).