Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753755AbYLTGvp (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:51:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752308AbYLTGvg (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:51:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f17.google.com ([209.85.219.17]:42031 "EHLO mail-ew0-f17.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752227AbYLTGvf (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:51:35 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=wKSjbEl61tqPDiVnHU0UIFX2koCi0jD470bEdVFTGFb/fPVTl6jQNr48reQwU++Xzv MhYaLwDbnJeZQZmlLDt9PxX9fXjc3YSeRmGzXp7pQG0VOsaD29bR+ufZgoiHJbar8pHT 6n4pBWSCdJcrevvL95yQdzMxkGHNggfS4LM9U= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:21:33 +0530 From: "Niraj kumar" To: linux-kernel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [Question] inotify : process based filtering of events MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 16 All, I am trying to use inotify to monitor filesystem events but my problem is that I am only interested in changes that is being done by a particular process and it's children (could be the same process which used inotify APIs). Is it possible to achieve this process based filtering of events using inotify infrastructure? -Niraj -- 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/