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Even if you were to statically compile a software build from 5 years ago, it may require newer kernel features such as inotify (instead of dnotify). At some poi
by dhx 15y ago
Even if you were to statically compile a software build from 5 years ago, it may require newer kernel features such as inotify (instead of dnotify). At some point of time the application authors (correctly) made a decision to throw out the old and go with the new. This is not a kernel issue (because old systems such as dnotify are still supported). But from a user perspective, it looks like the kernel is to blame, even if this assumption is incorrect.
- ajross 15y agoFrom my Fedora 16 laptop: $ fgrep DNOTIFY /boot/config-3.2.9-1.fc16.x86_64 CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y Obviously it's true that dnotify is the old junk and inotify the new hotness. But it hasn't been abandoned, by either the kernel or the distros. Again, they take stuff like this very seriously. Old junk runs. Really, it does.