Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

> Okay, now you're asking me to consider a system-wide daemon
> independent of systemd.  It has to run with root privileges so it has
> access to everyone's repositories, which means that people have to
> trust it beyond doubt.  What does it do?  It has a generic API to
> watch filesystem paths and report events over an IP socket.  Do you
> think that this will only be useful to git?  Every other version
> control system (and presumably many other pieces of software) will
> want to use it.  One huge downside I see of making this part of
> systemd is Ubuntu.  They've decided not to use systemd for some
> unfathomable reason.