EV_INOTIFY_BUFSIZE's doubt in libev

[Marc Lehmann]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:39:09AM +0800, Simon Liu <simohayha.bobo at gmail.com> wrote:
> when alignment padding   is happen?   and what  "some reason is >> 8" is
> mean?

Ah - the alignment happens in the kernel, is required even for a single
event read, and is much larger than 8 (which would be proper structure
alignment basically everywhere). in fact, the alignment is one empty
inotify_event structure.

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