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inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| autofs | ||
| autofs4 | ||
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| bfs | ||
| cifs | ||
| coda | ||
| cramfs | ||
| debugfs | ||
| devfs | ||
| devpts | ||
| efs | ||
| exportfs | ||
| ext2 | ||
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| fat | ||
| freevxfs | ||
| hfs | ||
| hfsplus | ||
| hostfs | ||
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| hppfs | ||
| hugetlbfs | ||
| isofs | ||
| jbd | ||
| jffs | ||
| jffs2 | ||
| jfs | ||
| lockd | ||
| minix | ||
| msdos | ||
| ncpfs | ||
| nfs | ||
| nfs_common | ||
| nfsd | ||
| nls | ||
| ntfs | ||
| openpromfs | ||
| partitions | ||
| proc | ||
| qnx4 | ||
| ramfs | ||
| reiserfs | ||
| romfs | ||
| smbfs | ||
| sysfs | ||
| sysv | ||
| udf | ||
| ufs | ||
| umsdos | ||
| vfat | ||
| xfs | ||
| aio.c | ||
| attr.c | ||
| bad_inode.c | ||
| binfmt_aout.c | ||
| binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | ||
| binfmt_elf.c | ||
| binfmt_em86.c | ||
| binfmt_flat.c | ||
| binfmt_misc.c | ||
| binfmt_script.c | ||
| binfmt_som.c | ||
| bio.c | ||
| block_dev.c | ||
| buffer.c | ||
| char_dev.c | ||
| compat_ioctl.c | ||
| compat.c | ||
| dcache.c | ||
| dcookies.c | ||
| direct-io.c | ||
| dnotify.c | ||
| dquot.c | ||
| eventpoll.c | ||
| exec.c | ||
| fcntl.c | ||
| fifo.c | ||
| file_table.c | ||
| file.c | ||
| filesystems.c | ||
| fs-writeback.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| inotify.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| ioprio.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.binfmt | ||
| libfs.c | ||
| locks.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mbcache.c | ||
| mpage.c | ||
| namei.c | ||
| namespace.c | ||
| nfsctl.c | ||
| open.c | ||
| pipe.c | ||
| posix_acl.c | ||
| quota_v1.c | ||
| quota_v2.c | ||
| quota.c | ||
| read_write.c | ||
| readdir.c | ||
| select.c | ||
| seq_file.c | ||
| stat.c | ||
| super.c | ||
| xattr_acl.c | ||
| xattr.c | ||