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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/sysfs/file.c
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/dnotify.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -391,9 +391,6 @@ int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
* sysfs_update_file - update the modified timestamp on an object attribute.
* @kobj: object we're acting for.
* @attr: attribute descriptor.
*
* Also call dnotify for the dentry, which lots of userspace programs
* use.
*/
int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
{
@@ -408,7 +405,7 @@ int sysfs_update_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr)
if (victim->d_inode &&
(victim->d_parent->d_inode == dir->d_inode)) {
victim->d_inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
dnotify_parent(victim, DN_MODIFY);
fsnotify_modify(victim);
/**
* Drop reference from initial sysfs_get_dentry().