From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Van Dolson Subject: Watching for changes to a CIFS directory Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:48:17 -0700 Message-ID: <20111014234816.GA14503@esri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: I'd like to watch a CIFS mounted directory for changes (files being created in specific). Does the CIFS client have working support for either INOTIFY or DNOTIFY? From perusing the mailing list, it seems that INOTIFY support is not present, but there was discussion on implementing DNOTIFY support some time back[1]. I'm not clear if that was ever partially or fully implemented. My current test scripts are using DNOTIFY and are not working with the CIFS client included in RHEL5, Fedora 13 or Fedora 14. Thanks, Ray [1] http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2009-January/003946.html