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[PATCH] inotify

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inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Robert Love
2005-07-12 17:06:03 -04:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bd4c625c06
commit 0eeca28300
24 changed files with 1639 additions and 67 deletions
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fs/nfsd/vfs.c
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_NFSD_V3 */
#include <linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/dnotify.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_read(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
nfsdstats.io_read += err;
*count = err;
err = 0;
dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_ACCESS);
fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
} else
err = nfserrno(err);
out:
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
set_fs(oldfs);
if (err >= 0) {
nfsdstats.io_write += cnt;
dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_MODIFY);
fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
}
/* clear setuid/setgid flag after write */