[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/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index ff48815..dec5827 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -410,6 +410,10 @@
atomic_t processes; /* How many processes does this user have? */
atomic_t files; /* How many open files does this user have? */
atomic_t sigpending; /* How many pending signals does this user have? */
+#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
+ atomic_t inotify_watches; /* How many inotify watches does this user have? */
+ atomic_t inotify_devs; /* How many inotify devs does this user have opened? */
+#endif
/* protected by mq_lock */
unsigned long mq_bytes; /* How many bytes can be allocated to mqueue? */
unsigned long locked_shm; /* How many pages of mlocked shm ? */