<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3314" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the plan for System Events in Upstart.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I mean by System Events are things like</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>   1. registering and receving notifications filesystem changes through inotify.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>   2. Hardware insertion/removal events.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>   3. Others. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the thinking on how these should be integrated with job file definitions. I inotify for example works for reloading job files.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>But i can't write job file that reacts to changes in some arbitrary file or directory.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there a plan? Is there agreement on a direction, that we could help with?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thx,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328575218-29072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sarvi</FONT> </SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>