Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches

Pavel Machek
2009-08-05T16:39:28Z

BTW my -@suse.cz address no longer works. pavel@ucw.cz should be ok.

> If a FAN_ACCESS_PERM or FAN_OPEN_PERM event is received the listener
> must send a response before the 5 second timeout. If no response is
> sent before the 5 second timeout the original operation is allowed. If
> this happens too many times (10 in a row) the fanotify group is evicted
> from the kernel and will not get any new events. Sending a response is
> done using the setsockopt() call with the socket options set to
> FANOTIFY_ACCESS_RESPONSE. The buffer should contain a structure like:

The timeout part of interface is very ugly. Will fanotify users have
to be realtime/mlocked?
Pavel
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