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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 <[email protected]>
Cc: John McCutchan <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Robert Love 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -04:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 0eeca28300
24 changed files with 1639 additions and 67 deletions
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fs/attr.c
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/dnotify.h>
#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
@ -107,31 +107,8 @@ int inode_setattr(struct inode * inode, struct iattr * attr)
out:
return error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_setattr);
int setattr_mask(unsigned int ia_valid)
{
unsigned long dn_mask = 0;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_UID)
dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_GID)
dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)
dn_mask |= DN_MODIFY;
/* both times implies a utime(s) call */
if ((ia_valid & (ATTR_ATIME|ATTR_MTIME)) == (ATTR_ATIME|ATTR_MTIME))
dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
else if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME)
dn_mask |= DN_ACCESS;
else if (ia_valid & ATTR_MTIME)
dn_mask |= DN_MODIFY;
if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)
dn_mask |= DN_ATTRIB;
return dn_mask;
}
int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
@ -197,11 +174,9 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
if (ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)
up_write(&dentry->d_inode->i_alloc_sem);
if (!error) {
unsigned long dn_mask = setattr_mask(ia_valid);
if (dn_mask)
dnotify_parent(dentry, dn_mask);
}
if (!error)
fsnotify_change(dentry, ia_valid);
return error;
}