where is /dev/inotify

[Henk Postma]

Dear all,

I want to experiment a little with directory monitoring with inotify. For
those interested, read here:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html

I am looking for /dev/inotify. I downloaded the sources for 'linux-source'
according to the instructions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelHowto

And I copied over the old config from /boot to /usr/src/linux. Now when I
make menuconfig, Inotify is already enabled, so why bother compiling, right?


Now where is the /dev/inotify? I understand it does not automatically get
created all the time. So I follow the instructions, and it tells me to run

dmesg | grep notify

and it also doesn't give me anything.

Where is inotify?

This happens both on breezy as well as dapper.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Henk Postma

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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~postma/
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