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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>
This commit is contained in:
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/read_write.c
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/dnotify.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
else
ret = do_sync_read(file, buf, count, pos);
if (ret > 0) {
dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_ACCESS);
fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
current->rchar += ret;
}
current->syscr++;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_
else
ret = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, pos);
if (ret > 0) {
dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_MODIFY);
fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
current->wchar += ret;
}
current->syscw++;
@@ -539,9 +539,12 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
out:
if (iov != iovstack)
kfree(iov);
if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0)
dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry,
(type == READ) ? DN_ACCESS : DN_MODIFY);
if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0) {
if (type == READ)
fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
else
fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
}
return ret;
Efault:
ret = -EFAULT;