Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268753AbUI3FkH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:40:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268765AbUI3FkH (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:40:07 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:24566 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268753AbUI3FkC (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:40:02 -0400 Message-ID: <415B9BB7.6070801@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:37:59 -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: Paul Jackson CC: Robert Love , akpm@osdl.org, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org, ray-lk@madrabbit.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gamin-list@gnome.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, iggy@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 References: <1096250524.18505.2.camel@vertex> <20040926211758.5566d48a.akpm@osdl.org> <1096318369.30503.136.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1096350328.26742.52.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> <20040928120830.7c5c10be.akpm@osdl.org> <41599456.6040102@nortelnetworks.com> <1096390398.4911.30.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <1096392771.26742.96.camel@orca.madrabbit.org> <1096403685.30123.14.camel@vertex> <20040929211533.5e62988a.akpm@osdl.org> <1096508073.16832.17.camel@localhost> <20040929200525.4e7bb489.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20040929200525.4e7bb489.pj@sgi.com> 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: 572 Lines: 18 Paul Jackson wrote: > Robert wrote: > >>A monitor on "/etc" will return "hosts" if hosts is modified. Which I >>think is OK--we don't pass the entire path, nor do we want to if we >>could do it easily, for numerous reasons .. > > > How about returning the inode number? Then I think you need the filesystem as well. 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/