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| author | Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com> | 2006-06-01 13:10:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2006-06-20 05:25:17 -0400 |
| commit | 2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667 (patch) | |
| tree | 1df2ca6780d403f3209cf445f8b0b27f45098434 /fs/Kconfig | |
| parent | 90204e0b7b51e9f2a6905adca12dc331128602c7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667.tar.gz lwn-2d9048e201bfb67ba21f05e647b1286b8a4a5667.zip | |
[PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support
The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,
making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's
mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will
maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct
inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a
corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and
specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be
called per inotify_watch.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 24 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index f9b5842c8d2d..74f11a23622d 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -393,18 +393,30 @@ config INOTIFY bool "Inotify file change notification support" default y ---help--- - Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system - calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a - replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in - dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring - of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features - include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount + Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change + notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes + numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features + including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount notification. For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt If unsure, say Y. +config INOTIFY_USER + bool "Inotify support for userspace" + depends on INOTIFY + default y + ---help--- + Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the + associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and + directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file + descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able. + + For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt + + If unsure, say Y. + config QUOTA bool "Quota support" help |