[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/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 9292f5f..563abd0 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/uio.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
-#include <linux/dnotify.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
else
ret = do_sync_read(file, buf, count, pos);
if (ret > 0) {
- dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_ACCESS);
+ fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
current->rchar += ret;
}
current->syscr++;
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
else
ret = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, pos);
if (ret > 0) {
- dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_MODIFY);
+ fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
current->wchar += ret;
}
current->syscw++;
@@ -539,9 +539,12 @@
out:
if (iov != iovstack)
kfree(iov);
- if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0)
- dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry,
- (type == READ) ? DN_ACCESS : DN_MODIFY);
+ if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0) {
+ if (type == READ)
+ fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
+ else
+ fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
+ }
return ret;
Efault:
ret = -EFAULT;