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[PATCH] inotify

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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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Robert Love 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -04:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent bd4c625c06
commit 0eeca28300
24 changed files with 1639 additions and 67 deletions
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@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/inotify.h>
/*
* This is needed for the following functions:
@ -202,6 +203,10 @@ void inode_init_once(struct inode *inode)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_data.i_mmap_nonlinear);
spin_lock_init(&inode->i_lock);
i_size_ordered_init(inode);
#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->inotify_watches);
sema_init(&inode->inotify_sem, 1);
#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_once);
@ -351,6 +356,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block * sb)
down(&iprune_sem);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
inotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes);
busy = invalidate_list(&sb->s_inodes, &throw_away);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);