Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches

Eric Paris
2009-07-29T20:09:16Z

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