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[PATCH] inotify: add two inotify_add_watch flags

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The below patch lets userspace have more control over the inodes that
inotify will watch.  It introduces two new flags.

        IN_ONLYDIR -- only watch the inode if it is a directory.
        This is needed to avoid the race that can occur when we want to be
        sure that we are watching a directory.

        IN_DONT_FOLLOW -- don't follow a symlink.  In combination
        with IN_ONLYDIR we can make sure that we don't watch the target of
        symlinks.

The issues the flags fix came up when writing the gnome-vfs inotify
backend.  Default behaviour is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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John McCutchan
2005-12-12 00:37:14 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b4788f6d55
commit 8140a5005b
2 changed files with 12 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ struct inotify_event {
#define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */
/* special flags */
#define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000 /* only watch the path if it is a directory */
#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000 /* don't follow a sym link */
#define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000 /* add to the mask of an already existing watch */
#define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */
#define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */