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author | 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400 | |
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committer | 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -0700 | |
commit | 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch) | |
tree | 7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /fs/open.c | |
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[PATCH] inotify
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 3f4a4286fdc4..32bf05e2996d 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/file.h> #include <linux/smp_lock.h> #include <linux/quotaops.h> -#include <linux/dnotify.h> +#include <linux/fsnotify.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/tty.h> @@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_open(const char __user * filename, int flags, int mode) put_unused_fd(fd); fd = PTR_ERR(f); } else { + fsnotify_open(f->f_dentry); fd_install(fd, f); } } |