Re: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.

Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-11-22T09:38:00Z

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?