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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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export.c | ||
lockd.c | ||
Makefile | ||
nfs2acl.c | ||
nfs3acl.c | ||
nfs3proc.c | ||
nfs3xdr.c | ||
nfs4acl.c | ||
nfs4callback.c | ||
nfs4idmap.c | ||
nfs4proc.c | ||
nfs4recover.c | ||
nfs4state.c | ||
nfs4xdr.c | ||
nfscache.c | ||
nfsctl.c | ||
nfsfh.c | ||
nfsproc.c | ||
nfssvc.c | ||
nfsxdr.c | ||
stats.c | ||
vfs.c |