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/compat.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/compat.c') diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c index 728cd8365384..6b06b6bae35e 100644 --- a/fs/compat.c +++ b/fs/compat.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ #include #include #include -#include +#include #include #include #include @@ -1307,9 +1307,13 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file, out: if (iov != iovstack) kfree(iov); - if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0) - dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, - (type == READ) ? DN_ACCESS : DN_MODIFY); + if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0) { + struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry; + if (type == READ) + fsnotify_access(dentry); + else + fsnotify_modify(dentry); + } return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3