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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-12-17 21:24:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-07-28 09:58:54 -0400 |
| commit | ff0b16a9850e8a240ad59e10b0a1291a8fcf7cbc (patch) | |
| tree | fe6fad578cfb2b8528828d4f77e5494542a1fb34 /fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig | |
| parent | 12ed2e36c98aec6c41559222e311f4aa15d254b6 (diff) | |
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fanotify: fscking all notification system
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on
giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open
file descriptor to the object in question. This should address a number of
races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify
and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled
notification. These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage
management schemes.
This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig b/fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f9d7ae081f85 --- /dev/null +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +config FANOTIFY + bool "Filesystem wide access notification" + select FSNOTIFY + default y + ---help--- + Say Y here to enable fanotify suport. fanotify is a file access + notification system which differs from inotify in that it sends + and open file descriptor to the userspace listener along with + the event. + + If unsure, say Y. |