From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:56:44 GMT
Subject: Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls
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Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> 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.

After some thought, I've decided that extending systemd is not the way
to go.  And the dbus API is really an overkill.  Writing a simple
system-wide daemon shouldn't be a challenge; the hard part is getting
git to use it properly.