Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262542AbVDHBwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262651AbVDHBwj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:52:39 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:64900 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262542AbVDHBwg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 21:52:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11 From: Robert Love To: Rusty Lynch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <3Q7wT-4HJ-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Q7wT-4HJ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:52:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1112925155.23323.2.camel@phantasy.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:37 -0700, Rusty Lynch wrote: > Looking into this a little more I realized that the lack of /proc > notifications (for processes coming and going) is a common problem anytime > a file is modified without going through the VFS. Other examples are > remote file changes on a mounted NFS partition, remote file changes on a > mounted cluster filesystem (like ocfs or gfs), and just about any virtual > file system where the kernel is adding/deleting/modifying files from below > the VFS. Indeed it is. But none of those are anything that we care about (except maybe /proc). The problem of changes on remote filesystems is solved by FAM. Robert Love - 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/