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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:03:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081217150300.fafcdda8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229540000.3384.40.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:53:20 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify so inotify does not get
> open events for these types of syscalls.  This patch simply makes the
> requisite fsnotify calls.

These two functions are grovelling around in pretty low-level fs
operations.  One wonders whether they could be converted (ie: cleaned
up) to use do_sys_open() or some other such higher-level thing.

That way, this fsnotify bug would be magically fixed, too.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-17 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-17 18:53 [PATCH] sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-17 19:04 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2008-12-17 19:22   ` Eric Paris
2008-12-17 22:52     ` Frederik Deweerdt
2008-12-17 23:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-18  2:39   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-18  2:32 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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