Hi,

I use the inotify functions from glib (through g_file_monitor_directory) with glib version 2.28. I upgraded to version 2.40 and directory monitoring was not working anymore. 

Analyzing the problem, it seems to happen because I use an kenel 2.6.34-1 without the inotify_init1. The 2.40 version seems to check only for the presence of inotify_init1, it is not using inotify_init anymore. Although support using both seems possible as you can see bellow:

diff -u gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c_old gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c 
--- gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c_old	2014-09-18 10:54:53.060666721 -0300
+++ gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c	2014-09-19 17:25:15.638938134 -0300
@@ -196,7 +196,9 @@
 
   initialized = TRUE;
 
+#if defined(HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1)
   inotify_instance_fd = inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC);
+#endif
 
   if (inotify_instance_fd < 0)
     inotify_instance_fd = inotify_init ();

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff -u gio/giomodule.c_old gio/giomodule.c
--- gio/giomodule.c_old	2014-09-19 16:54:53.747857935 -0300
+++ gio/giomodule.c	2014-09-19 16:56:05.256250125 -0300
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@
       /* Initialize types from built-in "modules" */
       g_type_ensure (g_null_settings_backend_get_type ());
       g_type_ensure (g_memory_settings_backend_get_type ());
-#if defined(HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1)
+#if defined(HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H)
       g_type_ensure (_g_inotify_directory_monitor_get_type ());
       g_type_ensure (_g_inotify_file_monitor_get_type ());
 #endif

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

diff -u configure.ac_old  configure.ac
--- configure.ac_old	2014-09-18 10:54:52.935673027 -0300
+++ configure.ac	2014-09-19 16:52:08.513194513 -0300
@@ -1668,10 +1668,12 @@
 dnl *****************************
 dnl ** Check for inotify (GIO) **
 dnl *****************************
+
 inotify_support=no
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/inotify.h],
 [
-  AC_CHECK_FUNCS(inotify_init1, [inotify_support=yes], [inotify_support=no])
+    inotify_support=yes
+    AC_CHECK_FUNCS(inotify_init1)
 ])
 
 AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_INOTIFY, [test "$inotify_support" = "yes"])




thanks