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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: supporting functions missing from inotify patch
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:12:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121281962.6384.36.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1121280212.5544.46.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com>

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:43 -0500, Steve French wrote:

> I don't see an inode operation for registering inotify events in the fs
> (there is a file operation for dir_notify to register its events).  In
> create_watch in fs/inotify.c I expected to see something like:

Why not use the existing dir_notify method?  No point in adding another.

Add inotify hooks as needed to your filesystem's dir_notify.

> I also don't see exports for 
> 	fsnotify_access
> 	fsnotify_modify
> 
> Without these exports, network and cluster filesystems can't notify the
> local system about changes.

Eh?

They are in <linux/fsnotify.h>.

	Robert Love



  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-13 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-13 18:43 supporting functions missing from inotify patch Steve French
2005-07-13 19:12 ` Robert Love [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-13 20:21 Steve French
2005-07-13 20:39 ` Robert Love
2005-07-13 21:51 ` Steve French

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