From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:27:06 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4149BEDA.9020307@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cic9os$ibd$1@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> If I were doing this, and I admit I may not understand all of the
> features, I would have a bitmap per filesystem of inodes being watched,
> and anything which did an action which might require notify would check
> the bit. If the bit were set the filesystem and inode info would be
> passed to user space which could do anything it wanted.
How do you identify the filesystem? Whose mount namespace do you use if you
have multiple processes in different namespaces watching what is really the same
file?
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-16 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-15 15:52 [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9 John McCutchan
2004-09-15 18:00 ` Robert Love
2004-09-16 15:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-16 16:27 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-09-16 22:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-16 16:39 ` Robert Love
2004-09-20 20:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-20 21:05 ` Robert Love
2004-09-20 22:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-21 0:02 ` Robert Love
2004-09-16 16:46 ` Jan Kara
2004-09-16 22:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-16 22:57 ` David Lang
2004-09-16 23:22 ` Robert Love
2004-09-16 23:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-17 2:29 ` Robert Love
2004-09-17 3:08 ` Nicholas Miell
2004-09-17 14:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-17 15:48 ` Robert Love
2004-09-17 14:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-17 15:55 ` Robert Love
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