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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>
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diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index fa7849fae134..1d3de78e6bc9 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/eventpoll.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
/* sysctl tunables... */
struct files_stat_struct files_stat = {
@@ -126,6 +127,8 @@ void fastcall __fput(struct file *file)
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
might_sleep();
+
+ fsnotify_close(file);
/*
* The function eventpoll_release() should be the first called
* in the file cleanup chain.