From: apawar.linux@gmail.com (Abhijit Pawar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: File change notification along with user
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:30:16 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E952CF0.1030105@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CftcHZZaaUkFZrsa9myX8RwYW7N4rymeZnU9NMpYOTE=nNWQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/12/2011 10:50 AM, V.Ravikumar wrote:
> Other than fanotify , I can achieve my requirement through a
> driver/module. If this can be achieved through a driver/module please
> provide me inputs to start.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, rohan puri <rohan.puri15@gmail.com
> <mailto:rohan.puri15@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, V.Ravikumar
> <ravikumar.vallabhu@gmail.com
> <mailto:ravikumar.vallabhu@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to write a module/driver which notifies
> file/directory change asynchronously along with user name(or
> with uid) who modified it.
>
> inotify will do change notification but it will not provide
> uid who modified/created the file.
>
> audit and inotify combination can work, but I'm looking for a
> better option than this.
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
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> You can have a look at fanotify.
>
> Refer http://lwn.net/Articles/339253/
>
> Regards,
> Rohan Puri
>
>
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Hi Ravi,
As mentioned in the article, you can start looking at fsnotify code in
the kernel. What we need is like something inserted between the VFS
Layer and the filesystem driver which will tell you what is going on.
Regards,
Abhijit Pawar
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 4:33 File change notification along with user V.Ravikumar
2011-09-21 4:57 ` rohan puri
2011-10-12 5:20 ` V.Ravikumar
2011-10-12 6:00 ` Abhijit Pawar [this message]
2011-10-12 6:22 ` V.Ravikumar
2011-10-12 6:34 ` rohan puri
2011-10-12 6:47 ` V.Ravikumar
2011-10-12 6:59 ` rohan puri
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