From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Niraj kumar <niraj17@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question] inotify : process based filtering of events
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:40:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081220104048.GB23632@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b82a89170812192251u3544f087x94775b6864f5ae8d@mail.gmail.com>
Hi.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:21:33PM +0530, Niraj kumar (niraj17@gmail.com) wrote:
> I am trying to use inotify to monitor filesystem events but
> my problem is that I am only interested in changes that
> is being done by a particular process and it's children
> (could be the same process which used inotify APIs).
>
> Is it possible to achieve this process based filtering of events
> using inotify infrastructure?
You can try using inotify nested attributes patch [1] and filter events
in userspace based on reported pid/tid. With the fsnotify changes coming
it may be possible to have similar functionality there.
1. Inotify nested attributes.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/25/272
2. Example usage and test application.
http://www.ioremap.net/node/73
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-20 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-20 6:51 [Question] inotify : process based filtering of events Niraj kumar
2008-12-20 10:40 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-12-20 13:13 ` Niraj kumar
2008-12-20 17:13 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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