Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove a
duplicate of ARRAY_SIZE. Some trailing whitespaces are also deleted.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I just noticed that my patch "don't create on open that fails due to
ERR_GRACE" (recently commited as fb553c0f17)
had an obvious problem that causes a deadlock on reboot recovery. Sending
in this now since it seems like a clear 2.6.16 candidate.--b.
We're returning with a lock held in some error cases.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A recent patch to
Allow run-time selection of NFS versions to export
meant that NO nfsacl service versions were exported. This patch restored
that functionality.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A recent patch which checked the return status of vfs_getattr in nfsd,
completely missed the nfsproc.c (NFSv2) part. Here is it.
This patch moved the call to vfs_getattr from the xdr encoding (at which point
it is too late to return an error) to the call handling. This means several
calls to vfs_getattr are needed in nfsproc.c. Many are encapsulated in
nfsd_return_attrs and nfsd_return_dirop.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
nfsd_sync* return an errno, which usually needs to be converted to an errno,
sometimes immediately, sometimes a little later.
Also, nfsd_setattr returns an nfserr which SHOULDN'T be converted from
an errno (because it isn't one).
Also some tidyups of the form:
err = XX
err = nfserrno(err)
and
err = XX
if (err)
err = nfserrno(err)
become
err = nfserrno(XX)
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
missing nfserrno() in default case of a switch by return value of
posix_lock_file(); as the result we send negative host-endian to clients that
expect positive network-endian, preferably mentioned in RFC... BTW, that case
is not impossible - posix_lock_file() can return -ENOLCK and we do not handle
that one explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
->rp_status is network-endian and nobody byteswaps it before sending to
client; putting NFSERR_SERVERFAULT instead of nfserr_serverfault in there is
not nice...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-EINVAL (in host order, no less) is not a good thing to return to client.
nfsd4_truncate() returns it in one case and its callers expect nfs_.... from
it. AFAICS, it should be nfserr_inval
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Several failure exits return -E<something> instead of nfserr_<something> and
vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clean up some unnecessary special-casing in the setattr code..
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix bug in rdattr_error return which causes correct error code to be
overwritten by nfserr_toosmall.
Signed-off-by: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Bad bookkeeping of the share reservations when handling open upgrades was
causing open downgrade to fail.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In an earlier patch (commit b648330a1d) I noted
that a too-early grace-period check was preventing us from bumping the
sequence id on open. Unfortunately in that patch I stupidly moved the
grace-period check back too far, so now an open for create can succesfully
create the file while still returning ERR_GRACE.
The correct place for that check is after we've set the open_owner and handled
any replays, but before we actually start mucking with the filesystem.
Thanks to Avishay Traeger for reporting the bug.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
nfsd4_process_open1 is very highly nested; flatten it out a bit.
Also, the preceding comment, which just outlines the logic, seems redundant.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove some goto's that made the logic here a little more tortuous than
necessary.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We shouldn't check for replays until after checking whether the open owner is
confirmed. Clients are allowed to reuse openowners without bumping the seqid.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We need to make sure open reclaims are marked confirmed immediately so that we
can handle replays even if they fail (e.g. with a seqid-incrementing error).
(See 8.1.8.)
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make sure we get a directory when we look up the recovery directory.
Thanks to Christoph Hellwig for the bug report.
Based on feedback from Christoph and others, we may remove the need for this
lookup and just pass in a file descriptor from userspace instead, and/or
completely move the directory handling to userspace. For now we're just
fixing the obvious bugs.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We should be opening this directory RDONLY, not RDWR.
Thanks to Christoph Hellwig for the bug report.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Simple, useful debugging printk: print the number of each op as we process it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix some bad logic.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It's confusing having both release_stateowner() and release_state_owner().
And as it turns out, release_state_owner() is short and only called from one
place; so just remove it.
Also note the confirmed check is superfluous there--preprocess_seqid_op
already check this.
And remove a redundant comment and a superfluous line assignment while we're
at it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
One of the things that's confusing about nfsd4_lock is that the lk_stateowner
field could be set to either of two different lockowners: the open owner or
the lock owner. Rename to lk_replay_owner and add a comment to make it clear
that it's used for whichever stateowner has its sequence id bumped for replay
detection.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
release_state_owner also puts the lock owner on the close_lru. There's no
need for that, though; replays of the failed lock would be handled by the
openowner not the lockowner.
Also consolidate the cleanup a bit, fixing leaks that can happen if errors
occur between the time a new lock owner is allocated and the lock is done.
Remove a comment and dprintk that look a little redundant.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Logic fixes for LOCK and UNLOCK.
- Move the permission check on the current file handle outside of
nfs4_lock_state()
- remove the file manager fl_release_private calls; fl_ops is not set.
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
These are both called from two places close together. I could rearrange that
code so there is only one call site, but just removing the 'inline' is
probably best.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change nfsd_sync_dir to return an error if ->sync fails, and pass that error
up through the stack. This involves a number of rearrangements of error
paths, and care to distinguish between Linux -errno numbers and NFSERR
numbers.
In the 'create' routines, we continue with the 'setattr' even if a previous
sync_dir failed.
This patch is quite different from Takashi's in a few ways, but there is still
a strong lineage.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add vfs_getxattr, vfs_setxattr and vfs_removexattr helpers for common checks
around invocation of the xattr methods. NFSD already was missing some of the
checks and there will be more soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
(James, I haven't touched selinux yet because it's doing various odd things
and I'm not sure how it would interact with the security attribute fallbacks
you added. Could you investigate whether it could use vfs_getxattr or if not
add a __vfs_getxattr helper to share the bits it is fine with?)
For NFSv4: instead of just converting it add an nfsd_getxattr helper for the
code shared by NFSv2/3 and NFSv4 ACLs. In fact that code isn't even
NFS-specific, but I'll wait for more users to pop up first before moving it to
common code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up: Every ULP that uses the in-kernel RPC client, except the NLM
client, sets cl_chatty. There's no reason why NLM shouldn't set it, so
just get rid of cl_chatty and always be verbose.
Test-plan:
Compile with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Shrink the RPC task structure. Instead of storing separate pointers
for task->tk_exit and task->tk_release, put them in a structure.
Also pass the user data pointer as a parameter instead of passing it via
task->tk_calldata. This enables us to nest callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
A typical nfsd call trace is
nfsd -> svc_process -> nfsd_dispatch -> nfsd3_proc_write ->
nfsd_write ->nfsd_vfs_write -> vfs_writev
These add up to over 300 bytes on the stack.
Looking at each of these, I see that nfsd_write (which includes
nfsd_vfs_write) contributes 0x8c to stack usage itself!!
It turns out this is because it puts a 'struct iattr' on the stack so
it can kill suid if needed. The following patch saves about 50 bytes
off the stack in this call path.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Both vfs_getattr and i_op->fsync return error statuses which nfsd was
largely ignoring. This as noticed when exporting directories using fuse.
This patch cleans up most of the offences, which involves moving the call
to vfs_getattr out of the xdr encoding routines (where it is too late to
report an error) into the main NFS procedure handling routines.
There is still a called to vfs_gettattr (related to the ACL code) where the
status is ignored, and called to nfsd_sync_dir don't check return status
either.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We must check for MAY_SATTR before setting acls, which includes checking
for read-only exports: the lower-level setxattr operation that
eventually sets the acl cannot check export-level restrictions.
Bug reported by Martin Walter <mawa@uni-freiburg.de>.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the fs/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.
Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in fs/.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If an RPC socket is serving multiple programs, then the pg_authenticate of
the first program in the list is called, instead of pg_authenticate for the
program to be run.
This does not cause a problem with any programs in the current kernel, but
could confuse future code.
Also set pg_authenticate for nfsd_acl_program incase it ever gets used.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are a couple of tests which could possibly be confused by extremely
large numbers appearing in 'xdr' packets. I think the closest to an exploit
you could get would be writing random data from a free page into a file - i.e.
leak data out of kernel space.
I'm fairly sure they cannot be used for remote compromise.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Provide a file in the NFSD filesystem that allows setting and querying of
which version of NFS are being exported. Changes are only allowed while no
server is running.
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Most files in the nfsd filesystems are transaction files. You write a
request, and read a response.
For some (e.g. 'threads') it makes sense to just be able to read and get the
current value.
This functionality did exist but was broken recently when someone modified
nfsctl.c without going through the maintainer. This patch fixes the
regression.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is a somewhat cosmetic fix to keep the SpecFS validation test from
complaining.
SpecFS want's to try chmod on symlinks, and ext3 and reiser (at least) return
ENOTSUPP.
Probably both sides are being silly, but it is easiest to simply make it a
non-issue and filter out chmod requests on symlinks at the nfsd level.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We could try to unlock the state lock here without having first locked it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the case of a lock which introduces a new lockowner, the openowner's
sequence id should be incremented, even when the operation fails, if the
error is a sequence-id-mutating error. The current code fails to do that
in some cases. Fix this by using the same sequence-id-incrementing
mechanism that all other such operations use.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It seems more natural to move the setting of the replay_owner into the
relevant procedure instead of doing it in nfsv4_proc_compound.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Demote some printk's that look like they could be triggered by non-buggy
clients to dprintk's. (For example, stale clientid's are normal
occurrences on reboot, and on a server with a lot of clients these messages
could become annoying.)
Also remove some redundant dprintk's (e.g. no need for both STALE_CLIENTID
and its callers to do dprintks).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When registering an RPC cache, cache_register() always sets the owner as the
sunrpc module. However, there are RPC caches owned by other modules. With
the incorrect owner setting, the real owning module can be removed potentially
with an open reference to the cache from userspace.
For example, if one were to stop the nfs server and unmount the nfsd
filesystem, the nfsd module could be removed eventhough rpc.idmapd had
references to the idtoname and nametoid caches (i.e.
/proc/net/rpc/nfs4.<cachename>/channel is still open). This resulted in a
system panic on one of our machines when attempting to restart the nfs
services after reloading the nfsd module.
The following patch adds a 'struct module *owner' field in struct
cache_detail. The owner is further assigned to the struct proc_dir_entry
in cache_register() so that the module cannot be unloaded while user-space
daemons have an open reference on the associated file under /proc.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bwa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since the patch to add a NULL short-circuit to crypto_free_tfm() went in,
there's no longer any need for callers of that function to check for NULL.
This patch removes the redundant NULL checks and also a few similar checks
for NULL before calls to kfree() that I ran into while doing the
crypto_free_tfm bits.
I've succesfuly compile tested this patch, and a kernel with the patch
applied boots and runs just fine.
When I posted the patch to LKML (and other lists/people on Cc) it drew the
following comments :
J. Bruce Fields commented
"I've no problem with the auth_gss or nfsv4 bits.--b."
Sridhar Samudrala said
"sctp change looks fine."
Herbert Xu signed off on the patch.
So, I guess this is ready to be dropped into -mm and eventually mainline.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch goes through the current users of the crypto layer and sets
CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP at crypto_alloc_tfm() where all crypto operations
are performed in process context.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The nfsd holds the big kernel lock upon exit, when it really shouldn't.
Not to mention that this breaks Ingo's RT patch. This is a trivial fix
to release the lock.
Ingo, this patch also works with your kernel, and stops the problem with
nfsd.
Note, there's a "goto out;" where "out:" is right above svc_exit_thread.
The point of the goto also holds the kernel_lock, so I don't see any
problem here in releasing it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser