Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:03:00 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
        hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:53:20 -0500
Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:

> sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify so inotify does not get
> open events for these types of syscalls.  This patch simply makes the
> requisite fsnotify calls.

These two functions are grovelling around in pretty low-level fs
operations.  One wonders whether they could be converted (ie: cleaned
up) to use do_sys_open() or some other such higher-level thing.

That way, this fsnotify bug would be magically fixed, too.
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