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author | Robert Love <rml@novell.com> | 2005-07-13 01:06:03 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-13 07:38:38 +0400 |
commit | 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch) | |
tree | 7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /fs/file_table.c | |
parent | bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff) | |
download | linux-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 'fs/file_table.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index fa7849fae134..1d3de78e6bc9 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 @@ void fastcall __fput(struct file *file) 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. |