Comment 19 for bug 882147

Vary well.

Though there is still one thing that bothers me. If INotify is non-existant because only partial support would be avalible, how do applications like tail/upstart/ect work?

Rhetorical I hope, they have to work regardless. So that begs my original question!

"Why bother with inotify."

Just do your fall back and forget about even testing for inotify support under the guyed lines of small is better and inotify dosn't make most applications smaller. As indicated there are a few places where INotify can shine, but it should not be abused by every function wherever it might fit.

INotify was built for wathcing large numbers of files and folders, if your application has a managable number of files... Then INotify is over kill and not for you as your application will break when INotify is missing.