Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268355AbUIPQbR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268186AbUIPQbQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:31:16 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:64643 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268440AbUIPQ1M (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:27:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4149BEDA.9020307@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:27:06 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9 References: <1095263565.19906.19.camel@vertex> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 18 Bill Davidsen wrote: > If I were doing this, and I admit I may not understand all of the > features, I would have a bitmap per filesystem of inodes being watched, > and anything which did an action which might require notify would check > the bit. If the bit were set the filesystem and inode info would be > passed to user space which could do anything it wanted. How do you identify the filesystem? Whose mount namespace do you use if you have multiple processes in different namespaces watching what is really the same file? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/