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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-02-06 01:37:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:05 -0800
commitece95912db94d98e202cbedb8f35206deb29d83d (patch)
tree7900aa32e8f8ee26f708471664a5b4024997be40 /include/linux
parent6d9851618104a21dbf5ee8260b5f2d4b5229c77e (diff)
inotify: send IN_ATTRIB events when link count changes
Currently, no notification event has been sent when inode's link count changed. This is inconvenient for the application in some cases: Suppose you have the following directory structure foo/test bar/ and you watch test. If someone does "mv foo/test bar/", you get event IN_MOVE_SELF and you know something has happened with the file "test". However if someone does "ln foo/test bar/test" and "rm foo/test" you get no inotify event for the file "test" (only directories "foo" and "bar" receive events). Furthermore it could be argued that link count belongs to file's metadata and thus IN_ATTRIB should be sent when it changes. The following patch implements sending of IN_ATTRIB inotify events when link count of the inode changes, i.e., when a hardlink to the inode is created or when it is removed. This event is sent in addition to all the events sent so far. In particular, when a last link to a file is removed, IN_ATTRIB event is sent in addition to IN_DELETE_SELF event. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fsnotify.h22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
index 2bd31fa623b..d4b7c4ac72e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ static inline void fsnotify_inoderemove(struct inode *inode)
}
/*
+ * fsnotify_link_count - inode's link count changed
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_link_count(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ inotify_inode_queue_event(inode, IN_ATTRIB, 0, NULL, NULL);
+}
+
+/*
* fsnotify_create - 'name' was linked in
*/
static inline void fsnotify_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -103,6 +111,20 @@ static inline void fsnotify_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
}
/*
+ * fsnotify_link - new hardlink in 'inode' directory
+ * Note: We have to pass also the linked inode ptr as some filesystems leave
+ * new_dentry->d_inode NULL and instantiate inode pointer later
+ */
+static inline void fsnotify_link(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode, struct dentry *new_dentry)
+{
+ inode_dir_notify(dir, DN_CREATE);
+ inotify_inode_queue_event(dir, IN_CREATE, 0, new_dentry->d_name.name,
+ inode);
+ fsnotify_link_count(inode);
+ audit_inode_child(new_dentry->d_name.name, new_dentry, dir);
+}
+
+/*
* fsnotify_mkdir - directory 'name' was created
*/
static inline void fsnotify_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)