Re: [patch] inotify, improved.

Chris Wright
2005-06-17T16:44:26Z

* Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortel.com) wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> >It's also racy as hell. By the time the inotify gets delivered to the
> >userspace process, pid 820 may be long gone.....
>
> Yep. But I can see uses for people to want to log all activity on
> specific directory trees. Think audit trails, etc.

This is already done by the audit patch. I don't think inotify has
quite enough info to build a comprehensive audit record.