From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klausk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify
 instead of inotify
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:25:07 -0300
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On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:31 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> Audit currently uses inotify to pin inodes in core and to detect when
> watched inodes are deleted or unmounted.  This patch uses fsnotify instead
> of inotify.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

Sorry for being lazy and not googling around, but what changes between
inotify and fsnotify, specially in terms of filesystem auditing? Is
there any performance/features/usability changes?

Thanks,

 -Klaus

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Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <klausk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Linux Security Development, IBM Linux Technology Center