From 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Love Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:06:03 -0400 Subject: [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 Cc: John McCutchan Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/open.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/open.c') diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 3f4a4286fdc..32bf05e2996 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #include #include #include -#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -951,6 +951,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_open(const char __user * filename, int flags, int mode) put_unused_fd(fd); fd = PTR_ERR(f); } else { + fsnotify_open(f->f_dentry); fd_install(fd, f); } } -- cgit v1.2.3