From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754839AbYGLNPU (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:15:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752631AbYGLNPH (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:15:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59009 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752573AbYGLNPF (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:15:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:14:46 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Jan Kara Cc: LKML , Vladislav Bogdanov Subject: Re: [PATCH] quota: Implement sending information via netlink about user below quota Message-Id: <20080712061446.ce779f6c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <12158660713206-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> References: <12158660713206-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:34:31 +0200 Jan Kara wrote: > > Sometimes it may be useful for userspace to know (e.g. for some hosting guys) > that some user stopped exceeding his hardlimit or softlimit in quotas. > Implement sending of such events to userspace via quota netlink protocol so > that they don't have to poll for such events. Based on idea and initial > implementation by Vladislav Bogdanov . Documentation/filesystems/quota.txt will need an update.