Re: [PATCH] fanotify: self describing event metadata

[Marko Rauhamaa <marko.rauhamaa@f-secure.com>]

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>:

> That makes some sense but I'd really like to see how you apply this to
> other things because e.g. with PID vs TGID I don't really see the need
> for any flags. It might be interesting to have PID vs TGID flag there
> for consistency once we really start to send them for other things but
> I don't see a need to rush it now. Plus we are at rc7 already so we
> are out of time for changes going to the coming merge window.

A general side note: the PID is often useless as the process can die
before the fa-notification reaches the handler. I wish there were a
CLOSE_PERM event that held the closing process in existence (as a zombie
if nothing else) until the event has been processed.


Marko