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| author | Robert Love <rml@novell.com> | 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -0700 |
| commit | 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch) | |
| tree | 7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /fs/Makefile | |
| parent | bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443.tar.gz lwn-0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443.zip | |
[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 <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 20edcf28bfd2..cf95eb894fd5 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o buffer.o bio.o super.o \ seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o mpage.o direct-io.o \ ioprio.o +obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY) += inotify.o obj-$(CONFIG_EPOLL) += eventpoll.o obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT) += compat.o |