From: Juergen Hasch <lkml@elbonia.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Michael Welles <mike@bangstate.com>
Subject: Re: Using get_cwd inside a module.
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:33:34 +0100
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Am Samstag, 22. November 2003 09:30 schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> The basic problem is that you shouldn't call syscalls from kernelspace.
> Have you looked at dnotify to look for changed files instead?

Dnotify doesn't return the file names that changed, changedfiles does.
I've looked into this, because Samba would benefit from such a functionality.

So maybe it would be possible to teach dnotify to return file names
(e.g. using netlink) ?

...Juergen

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