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authorColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2010-03-16 12:16:33 -0400
committerColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2010-03-16 12:21:52 -0400
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Support inotify on older kernels
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23957 Previously we detected glibc support at compile time and used it unconditionally; better to try it and fall back, this way we continue to run on older kernels when compiled for newer ones.
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diff --git a/bus/dir-watch-inotify.c b/bus/dir-watch-inotify.c
index c98e6fcb..094993bb 100644
--- a/bus/dir-watch-inotify.c
+++ b/bus/dir-watch-inotify.c
@@ -226,6 +226,11 @@ _init_inotify (BusContext *context)
{
#ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1
inotify_fd = inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC);
+ /* This ensures we still run on older Linux kernels.
+ * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23957
+ */
+ if (inotify_fd < 0)
+ inotify_fd = inotify_init ();
#else
inotify_fd = inotify_init ();
#endif