On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Seth Vidal (skvidal@fedoraproject.org) said:
at the risk of getting myself in trouble - you don't have to do it at the rpm layer... You could do it in yum or in a yum plugin and then not have to worry about propagating it up the stack.
The alternative is to have apps set inotify watches on their own binaries, I suppose. (There was something in Fedora that used to do this.)
wow, that would be, umm, special.
How well does inotify cope with THOUSANDS of watches?
-sv