[Buildroot] [PATCH] inotify-tools: Add new package

Mike Williams mike at mikebwilliams.com
Mon Jul 25 21:11:53 UTC 2011


Peter,

Thanks for taking the time to review this so quickly.

>  Mike> Adds support for inotify-tools, which are useful for scripting the
>  Mike> Linux inotify API.
>
> Thanks, see below for a few comments.
>
> First of all, are you aware of busybox's inotifyd? From a quick look it
> seems to do more-or-less the same as these.

I was not (I did the lazy thing and searched through the buildroot
package menus only). However, it doesn't mention automatically
monitoring subdirectories that are created, which I need, so these
tools appear to still be necessary.


> Otherwise it looks good, thanks. Care to fix and resend?

Sure, I'll try to get it done ASAP.

Thanks,
Mike



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