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| author | Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> | 2011-11-02 13:39:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-11-02 16:07:02 -0700 |
| commit | f1ecf06854a66ee663f4d4cf029c78cd62a15e04 (patch) | |
| tree | cbe863057fa14b9390746db6d2b1812a2f874b48 /kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | |
| parent | 088024b1deee206cd37eff980138e918837aabdb (diff) | |
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sysctl: add support for poll()
Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
notifications of changes in sysctl entries. This adds a infrastructure to
allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for hostname and
domainname.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/declare/define/ for definitions]
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/utsname_sysctl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/utsname_sysctl.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c index a2cd77e70d4d..3b0d48ebf81d 100644 --- a/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/utsname_sysctl.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <linux/uts.h> #include <linux/utsname.h> #include <linux/sysctl.h> +#include <linux/wait.h> static void *get_uts(ctl_table *table, int write) { @@ -51,12 +52,19 @@ static int proc_do_uts_string(ctl_table *table, int write, uts_table.data = get_uts(table, write); r = proc_dostring(&uts_table,write,buffer,lenp, ppos); put_uts(table, write, uts_table.data); + + if (write) + proc_sys_poll_notify(table->poll); + return r; } #else #define proc_do_uts_string NULL #endif +static DEFINE_CTL_TABLE_POLL(hostname_poll); +static DEFINE_CTL_TABLE_POLL(domainname_poll); + static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = { { .procname = "ostype", @@ -85,6 +93,7 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.nodename), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_do_uts_string, + .poll = &hostname_poll, }, { .procname = "domainname", @@ -92,6 +101,7 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_kern_table[] = { .maxlen = sizeof(init_uts_ns.name.domainname), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_do_uts_string, + .poll = &domainname_poll, }, {} }; @@ -105,6 +115,19 @@ static struct ctl_table uts_root_table[] = { {} }; +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL +/* + * Notify userspace about a change in a certain entry of uts_kern_table, + * identified by the parameter proc. + */ +void uts_proc_notify(enum uts_proc proc) +{ + struct ctl_table *table = &uts_kern_table[proc]; + + proc_sys_poll_notify(table->poll); +} +#endif + static int __init utsname_sysctl_init(void) { register_sysctl_table(uts_root_table); |