Re: [PATCH v15 00/13] fsmonitor: implement filesystem change listener for Linux

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> Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com> writes:
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> >> Le 15 avr. 2026 à 09:27, Paul Tarjan via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >> This series implements the built-in fsmonitor daemon for Linux using the
> >> inotify API, bringing it to feature parity with the existing Windows and
> >> macOS implementations. It also fixes two memory leaks in the
> >> platform-independent daemon code and deduplicates the IPC and settings logic
> >> that is now shared between macOS and Linux.
> >
> > Troubleshooting a Gentoo build failure of next has me pretty
> > convinced this topic is in there already. Junio should probably
> > check my math, but I think that means we want to see fixes on top
> > of that base now (unless we are reverting this topic from next and
> > queuing a new version?).
> >
> > (The failure is a Gentoo-ism; we carry a patch that stops applying
> > with this series. Not anything this project needs to worry about.)
>
> So is there a verdict already, which this project may not need to
> worry about?  This has been kept out of 'next' after getting
> reverted but if the breakage was due to Gentoo-ism whose workaround
> does not need to get upstreamed, and if there are no other reasons to
> block the topic, I am inclined to mark the topic for 'next'.
>
> Thanks.