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authorRobert Love <rml@novell.com>2005-07-13 01:06:03 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-13 07:38:38 +0400
commit0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch)
tree7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /arch/i386
parentbd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff)
downloadlinux-0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443.tar.xz
[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 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
index 3db9a04aec6e..468500a7e894 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S
@@ -291,3 +291,6 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
.long sys_keyctl
.long sys_ioprio_set
.long sys_ioprio_get /* 290 */
+ .long sys_inotify_init
+ .long sys_inotify_add_watch
+ .long sys_inotify_rm_watch