Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:15:59 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Juergen Hasch <lkml@elbonia.de>
Cc: Michael Welles <mike@bangstate.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using get_cwd inside a module.
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:33:34AM +0100, Juergen Hasch wrote:
> 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) ?

Well, you can't return filenames.  There's no unique path to a give
file. 

What are the exact requirements of changedfiles or samba?
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