From: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To: Niraj kumar <niraj17@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:08:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248898122.2597.54.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b82a89170907250722o572e741dq372ab11faf58261@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 19:52 +0530, Niraj kumar wrote:
> >
> > - subtree notification.
> > Currently to only watch /home and all of it's descendants one must
> > either register a directed watch on every directory or use a global
> > listener. The global listener with ignored_mask is not as bad as it
> > sounds in my testing, but decent subtree registration and notification
> > would be a big win in a lot of people's mind.
>
> Unless it's already covered in some way, I would also be interested
> in notification based on "process subtree". What this means is that
> for whatever notification a particular process requests, it's only
> interested in events generated by itself and it's children.
> This is useful in doing auditing for file system related access.
Has not been considered. You'd have to really flesh out the use case
before I could.....
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-24 20:13 fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches Eric Paris
2009-07-24 20:48 ` david-gFPdbfVZQbY
[not found] ` <alpine.DEB.1.10.0907241340580.28013-Z4YwzcCRHZnr5h6Zg1Auow@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24 21:01 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 21:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-27 17:52 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-07-29 20:11 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 21:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-24 21:21 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 22:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-24 23:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-24 22:48 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20090724224813.GK27755-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24 23:25 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-24 23:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-24 23:49 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-25 0:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-27 18:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-07-27 19:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-28 17:59 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <20090727192342.GA27895-yetKDKU6eevNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:14 ` Eric Paris
[not found] ` <20090727183354.GM4231-RIaA196FMs1uuQVovAj/GogTZbYi8/ss@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:12 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-29 20:07 ` Eric Paris
2009-07-27 16:54 ` Jan Kara
2009-07-25 14:22 ` Niraj kumar
2009-07-29 20:08 ` Eric Paris [this message]
2009-07-28 11:48 ` Jon Masters
[not found] ` <1248781708.14145.21.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-29 20:20 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-03 16:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090803162303.GA31058-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-03 16:55 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-03 18:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20090803180437.GA9798-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-03 18:13 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-04 16:09 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908041709.51659.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 16:27 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-04 16:39 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <1249403268.2361.21.camel-8EcGF3LoIElviLIMxPk1+R/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 17:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
[not found] ` <19585.1249406551-+bZmOdGhbsPr6rcHtW+onFJE71vCis6O@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 18:20 ` John Stoffel
[not found] ` <19064.31705.491774.122207-HgN6juyGXH5AfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-04 18:50 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-05 9:32 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-04 16:34 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908041734.05762.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-05 10:12 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-05 10:35 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-05 2:05 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-05 16:46 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908051746.17903.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 10:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-06 10:20 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-06 10:24 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20090806101059.GD31370-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 10:20 ` Douglas Leeder
2009-08-06 10:22 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-07 8:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-06 10:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 10:59 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-08-06 11:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-06 12:48 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
[not found] ` <200908061348.43625.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 12:58 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20090806135800.7ccb7787-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 18:18 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-06 13:50 ` Kernel Event Notification Subsystem (was: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches) Al Boldi
2009-08-06 13:50 ` Al Boldi
2009-08-06 18:18 ` fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches Eric Paris
2009-08-07 16:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1MZSQZ-0002as-FA-8f8m9JG5TPIdUIPVzhDTVZP2KDSNp7ea@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-07 17:43 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-08 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 10:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <1249582695.20644.35.camel-8EcGF3LoIElviLIMxPk1+R/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-08 10:34 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <200908061159.45550.tvrtko.ursulin-j34lQMj1tz/QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-08-06 11:24 ` Pavel Machek
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