Kernel Korner - Intro to inotify | Linux JournalJohn McCutchan and I had been working on inotify for about a year when it was finally merged into Linus' kernel tree and released with kernel version 2.6.13. Although a long struggle, the effort culminated in success and was ultimately worth every rewrite, bug and debate. inotify is a file change notification system—a kernel feature that allows applications to request the monitoring of a set of fi
