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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/inode.c | |
parent | bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff) | |
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[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/inode.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 5bc97507eeaa..96364fae0844 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/cdev.h> #include <linux/bootmem.h> +#include <linux/inotify.h> /* * This is needed for the following functions: @@ -202,6 +203,10 @@ void inode_init_once(struct inode *inode) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_data.i_mmap_nonlinear); spin_lock_init(&inode->i_lock); i_size_ordered_init(inode); +#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->inotify_watches); + sema_init(&inode->inotify_sem, 1); +#endif } EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_once); @@ -351,6 +356,7 @@ int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block * sb) down(&iprune_sem); spin_lock(&inode_lock); + inotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes); busy = invalidate_list(&sb->s_inodes, &throw_away); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); |