From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: apawar.linux@gmail.com (Abhijit Pawar) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:30:16 +0530 Subject: File change notification along with user In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E952CF0.1030105@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, V.Ravikumar > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > You can have a look at fanotify. > > Refer http://lwn.net/Articles/339253/ > > Regards, > Rohan Puri > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20111012/1c99d836/attachment.html