Re: fanotify as syscalls

Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-22T21:39:49Z

On Tuesday, 22 September 2009 23:06:16 Eric Paris wrote:
> this is true, if there is only one namespace subtree notification works
> the same as global notification.
>
> [...]
>
> I don't see how subtree notification can possibly solve the global
> notification problem.

I'm thinking of is something like this: A listener registers interest in "/",
recursively. The kernel sets a FSNOTIFY_WATCH_RECURSIVE flag on "/" and each
mount point below. Afterwards when something is mounted anywhere, same
namespace or not, the kernel sets the new mount's FSNOTIFY_WATCH_RECURSIVE
flag if the parent mount has this flag set.

(Of course we need per fsnotify_group flags and not global ones, but this
doesn't change the principle.)

Andreas