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authorRobert Love <rml@novell.com>2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-12 20:38:38 -0700
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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/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 93dee70a1dbe..6acd5c63da91 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/*
@@ -57,8 +58,10 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *name, void __user *value,
if (error)
goto out;
error = d->d_inode->i_op->setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
- if (!error)
+ if (!error) {
+ fsnotify_xattr(d);
security_inode_post_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
+ }
out:
up(&d->d_inode->i_sem);
}