Ubuntu
udev package

inotify has no /dev/inotify device

Bug #40436 reported by Brian Ealdwine on 2006-04-20

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	udev (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

While the preferred method for accessing inotify is through kernel calls, it would be nice to support the older framework as well.

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Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote on 2006-04-20:

Temporarily using

mknod /dev/inotify c 10 63

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote on 2006-05-04:

Confirm that this is the behaviour, not commenting on whether supporting /dev/inotify would be good or not. Also, this is wishlist.

Changed in linux-meta:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote on 2006-05-04:

This is really an issue for udev, but I think it's one that will not happen. Rejecting on udev's behalf.

Changed in linux-meta:
status:	Confirmed → Rejected

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote on 2006-05-05:

Why is it an issue for udev? The kernel doesn't generate any kind of kobject for an inotify device, so udev won't create one.

I thought there wasn't even code for managing those in the kernel now?

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