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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 10:18:49 -0400 |
| commit | 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6 (patch) | |
| tree | 25fffb46e0b1594aa692ed10e755b6ae041022bc /fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | |
| parent | 611da04f7a31b2208e838be55a42c7a1310ae321 (diff) | |
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inotify: allow users to request not to recieve events on unlinked children
An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those
children have been unlinked. This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK
which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children.
This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to
/tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and
writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296
Requested-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index f381dafe8efb..dfc80f70e517 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static inline __u32 inotify_arg_to_mask(u32 arg) mask = (FS_IN_IGNORED | FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD | FS_UNMOUNT); /* mask off the flags used to open the fd */ - mask |= (arg & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_ONESHOT)); + mask |= (arg & (IN_ALL_EVENTS | IN_ONESHOT | IN_EXCL_UNLINK)); return mask; } |