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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 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 302ec20838ca..c9bf3746a9fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -474,6 +474,11 @@ struct inode {
struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
+ struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
+ struct semaphore inotify_sem; /* protects the watches list */
+#endif
+
unsigned long i_state;
unsigned long dirtied_when; /* jiffies of first dirtying */
@@ -1393,7 +1398,6 @@ extern void emergency_remount(void);
extern int do_remount_sb(struct super_block *sb, int flags,
void *data, int force);
extern sector_t bmap(struct inode *, sector_t);
-extern int setattr_mask(unsigned int);
extern int notify_change(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
extern int permission(struct inode *, int, struct nameidata *);
extern int generic_permission(struct inode *, int,