inotify.7: Note rationale and consequences of event coalescing

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2014-03-26 13:04:07 +01:00 · 2014-03-26 13:04:07 +01:00 · 8856aab855
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 then they are coalesced into a single event if the
 older event has not yet been read (but see BUGS).
+This reduces the amount of kernel memory required for the event queue,
+but also means that an application can't use inotify to reliably count
+file events.

 The events returned by reading from an inotify file descriptor
 form an ordered queue.