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From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:37:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081122093749.GA12543@ioremap.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811211939.46812.arnd@arndb.de>

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:39:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann (arnd@arndb.de) wrote:
> The how about an inotify_init1 flag telling the kernel to ignore
> changes done by the current PID? That sounds like it is potentially
> useful to other applications that want to monitor the whole file system
> and also write to it. It also doesn't need to change the ABI in
> incompatible ways or introduce a security relevant side channel.

That's a good idea. Robert, John, Michael - comments?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-22  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <acdcfe7e0811081035l56eedf05x8b3b7ee2fc01eee6@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-08 18:40 ` [1/1] Use pid in inotify events Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-08 22:03   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-10 15:13 ` [take 2] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-16 23:24 ` [take 3] " Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-17 16:59   ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-17 17:15     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-17 17:23       ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-17 17:52         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-20 13:09           ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-21 14:03             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-21 14:20               ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-21 14:37                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-21 14:30               ` Robert Love
2008-11-21 14:53                 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-21 14:57                 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-21 15:08                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-18 13:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-11-19 14:05       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
     [not found]         ` <cfd18e0f0811190634g276b4a2dm5b3d5de25a5c9222@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-19 14:43           ` Michael Kerrisk
2008-11-20 19:17             ` Ville Syrjälä
2008-11-19 14:53           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-20 22:34             ` John McCutchan
2008-11-20 23:06               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-21 18:39                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-11-22  7:12                   ` David Newall
2008-11-22  9:41                     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-22 11:41                       ` David Newall
2008-11-22  9:37                   ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2008-11-24  5:08                     ` John McCutchan
2008-11-24  7:30                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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