[PATCH] inotify
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>
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 5bc9750..96364fa 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/inotify.h>
/*
* This is needed for the following functions:
@@ -202,6 +203,10 @@
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_data.i_mmap_nonlinear);
spin_lock_init(&inode->i_lock);
i_size_ordered_init(inode);
+#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->inotify_watches);
+ sema_init(&inode->inotify_sem, 1);
+#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_once);
@@ -351,6 +356,7 @@
down(&iprune_sem);
spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+ inotify_unmount_inodes(&sb->s_inodes);
busy = invalidate_list(&sb->s_inodes, &throw_away);
spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
