From 8140a5005bc6f1c9d0fa103460d50d472e6e3426 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John McCutchan Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 00:37:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] inotify: add two inotify_add_watch flags The below patch lets userspace have more control over the inodes that inotify will watch. It introduces two new flags. IN_ONLYDIR -- only watch the inode if it is a directory. This is needed to avoid the race that can occur when we want to be sure that we are watching a directory. IN_DONT_FOLLOW -- don't follow a symlink. In combination with IN_ONLYDIR we can make sure that we don't watch the target of symlinks. The issues the flags fix came up when writing the gnome-vfs inotify backend. Default behaviour is unchanged. Signed-off-by: John McCutchan Acked-by: Robert Love Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/inotify.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h index ee5b239092e..267c88b5f74 100644 --- a/include/linux/inotify.h +++ b/include/linux/inotify.h @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ struct inotify_event { #define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */ /* special flags */ +#define IN_ONLYDIR 0x01000000 /* only watch the path if it is a directory */ +#define IN_DONT_FOLLOW 0x02000000 /* don't follow a sym link */ #define IN_MASK_ADD 0x20000000 /* add to the mask of an already existing watch */ #define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */ #define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */ -- cgit v1.2.3