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Subject: Re: Looking for a file monitor
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Yeah, that's basically what I'm looking for.
So is it correct that I can keep track of all the actions as inotify events?


> But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read,
> written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature
> will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens,
> and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple
> patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we
> could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be
> too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation.
>
> Hareesh
>
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