From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tvrtko Ursulin Subject: Re: Better support for (desktop) file search / indexing applications Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:10:15 +0000 Message-ID: <10569573.iu1a6eiZCO@deuteros> References: <201211011352.42476.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <6898338.Kmf2pUBmi1@deuteros> <201211101753.46211.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , John McCutchan , Robert Love , Eric Paris , Eric Paris , Nepomuk Mailing List , Linux Filesystem Development Mailinglist To: Martin Steigerwald Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201211101753.46211.Martin@lichtvoll.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Saturday 10 November 2012 17:53:45 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Still fanotify needs root access and thus this would need a daemon running > as root and some policy kit stuff to access it and in case of mount point > watches robust and secure code so that each user may only see his/her own > results. Perhaps then also extend fanotify to support user watches, from the top of my head I can't think of a reason it would be very difficult to implement. But it has been a few years since I actively worked with that code. Since you are not the only group having issues with fanotify feature set I can see this mini-project (together with extensions from me previous reply) being useful. It is also better to evolve it than neglect due a few shortcomings and then in a few years someone will come up with something completely new and then we will have yet another notification system. Tvrtko