Fall back to inotify_init if inotify_init1 does not work

This fixes monitoring failing to work when glib is built on a 2.6.27+ kernel but run on an older one. http://bugs.debian.org/544354 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593775
dieterv · Sep 23, 2009 · cc4970c · cc4970c
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commit cc4970c
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diff --git a/gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c b/gio/inotify/inotify-kernel.c
@@ -193,8 +193,10 @@ gboolean _ik_startup (void (*cb)(ik_event_t *event))
 #ifdef HAVE_INOTIFY_INIT1
   inotify_instance_fd = inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC);
 #else
-  inotify_instance_fd = inotify_init ();
+  inotify_instance_fd = -1;
 #endif
+  if (inotify_instance_fd < 0)
+    inotify_instance_fd = inotify_init ();
 
   if (inotify_instance_fd < 0)
     return FALSE;