[Gllug] Hard drive spindown

Richard Cohen richard at vmlinuz.org
Fri Nov 7 23:33:42 UTC 2003


On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Richard Jones wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:08:51PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > There was a syscall added to Linux *ages* ago allowing you to get a
> > signal when a directory inode is updated. Come on KDE ...
>
> I made this claim rather boldly without checking my facts. Now I can't
> find such a syscall. Can anyone refresh my memory about this? I'm
> quite sure I read about it.

Did you mean fcntl(fd, F_NOTIFY, ...) and related?

> Rich.

Cheers
Richard

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