inotify program compile error

Question

hi i want write a program in c by inotify to a system with kernel 2.6.9 but 2.6.9 dosnt support inotify, since i update kernel to version 2.6.18, when i want to compile my program error say:undefined reference toinotify_init'` what can i solve that? glibc version 2.3.4 gcc version 3.4.4

Answer 1

You need a more recent glibc... or maybe you could get away with some specialized inotify library.

If possible, upgrade software :-)

Answer 2

thank you, after couple of days i change my way and write my program by dnotify and work correctly.