sysctl: add support for poll()

Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries.  This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Lucas De Marchi
2011-11-02 13:39:22 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 088024b1de
commit f1ecf06854
5 changed files with 108 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ struct new_utsname {
#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
enum uts_proc {
UTS_PROC_OSTYPE,
UTS_PROC_OSRELEASE,
UTS_PROC_VERSION,
UTS_PROC_HOSTNAME,
UTS_PROC_DOMAINNAME,
};
struct user_namespace;
extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
@@ -80,6 +88,14 @@ static inline struct uts_namespace *copy_utsname(unsigned long flags,
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
extern void uts_proc_notify(enum uts_proc proc);
#else
static inline void uts_proc_notify(enum uts_proc proc)
{
}
#endif
static inline struct new_utsname *utsname(void)
{
return &current->nsproxy->uts_ns->name;