Bug 179366

Summary: missing inotify support.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dave Jones <davej>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Fixed In Version: 2.3.90-32 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Dave Jones 2006-01-30 16:56:41 UTC 
#include <sys/inotify.h>
void main()
{
        int i;
        i = inotify_init();
}

(11:55:22:davej@nemesis:~)$ gcc test.c
test.c: In function âmainâ:
test.c:4: warning: return type of âmainâ is not âintâ
/home/davej/tmp/ccaFrBE5.o: In function `main':test.c:(.text+0x9): warning:
warning: inotify_init is not implemented and will always fail

aparently the inotify-using apps we currently ship (gnome-vfs, gamin etc) are
carrying their own private copies of the headers to work around this, but users
hit problems when they try to use inotify in their own apps.
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2006-02-06 15:04:48 UTC 
The inotify syscalls were added to glibc-kernheaders in glibc-kernheaders-3_0-4
on  2006-01-23 -- for Alpha, i386, ppc, ppc64, s390, s390x and x86_64. Now that
glibc has been rebuilt, the support ought to be present.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2006-02-06 16:16:05 UTC 
Should be fixed in glibc-2.3.90-32 and above.