[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>
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index fa7849f..1d3de78 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/eventpoll.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
/* sysctl tunables... */
struct files_stat_struct files_stat = {
@@ -126,6 +127,8 @@
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
might_sleep();
+
+ fsnotify_close(file);
/*
* The function eventpoll_release() should be the first called
* in the file cleanup chain.