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Robert Love 0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify ... 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>		20 years ago
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acpi	[ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...	20 years ago
cpu	[ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...	20 years ago
timers	[PATCH] mostly_read data section	20 years ago
Makefile	[PATCH] kexec: x86 kexec core	20 years ago
apic.c	[PATCH] x86: i8253/i8259A lock cleanup	20 years ago
apm.c	[PATCH] x86: i8253/i8259A lock cleanup	20 years ago
asm-offsets.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
bootflag.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
cpuid.c	[PATCH] class: convert arch/* to use the new class api instead of class_simple	20 years ago
crash.c	[PATCH] kexec code cleanup	20 years ago
dmi_scan.c	[PATCH] dmi: spring cleanup	20 years ago
doublefault.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
early_printk.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
efi.c	[PATCH] crashdump: x86 crashkernel option	20 years ago
efi_stub.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
entry.S	[PATCH] uml: fix syscall table by including $(SUBARCH)'s one, for i386	20 years ago
head.S	[PATCH] variable overflow after hundreds round of hotplug CPU	20 years ago
i386_ksyms.c	[PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost.	20 years ago
i387.c	[PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost.	20 years ago
i8259.c	[PATCH] kexec: x86: i8259 shutdown: disable interrupts	20 years ago
init_task.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
io_apic.c	[PATCH] x86: i8253/i8259A lock cleanup	20 years ago
ioport.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
irq.c	[PATCH] cpu state clean after hot remove	20 years ago
kprobes.c	[PATCH] kprobes: fix namespace problem and sparc64 build	20 years ago
ldt.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
machine_kexec.c	[PATCH] kexec code cleanup	20 years ago
mca.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
microcode.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
module.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
mpparse.c	[PATCH] i386: cleanup boot_cpu_logical_apicid variables	20 years ago
msr.c	[PATCH] class: convert arch/* to use the new class api instead of class_simple	20 years ago
nmi.c	[PATCH] adjust i386 watchdog tick calculation	20 years ago
numaq.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
pci-dma.c	[PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost.	20 years ago
process.c	[PATCH] seccomp: tsc disable	20 years ago
ptrace.c	[PATCH] xen: x86: Rename usermode macro	20 years ago
quirks.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
reboot.c	[PATCH] kexec: x86: factor out apic shutdown code	20 years ago
reboot_fixups.c	[PATCH] x86 reboot: Add reboot fixup for gx1/cs5530a	20 years ago
relocate_kernel.S	[PATCH] kexec: x86 kexec core	20 years ago
scx200.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
semaphore.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
setup.c	[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line	20 years ago
sigframe.h	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
signal.c	Fix up try_to_freeze() usage in arch/i386/kernel/signal.c	20 years ago
smp.c	[PATCH] sep initializing rework	20 years ago
smpboot.c	[PATCH] mostly_read data section	20 years ago
srat.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
summit.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
sys_i386.c	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
syscall_table.S	[PATCH] inotify	20 years ago
sysenter.c	[PATCH] sep initializing rework	20 years ago
time.c	[PATCH] mostly_read data section	20 years ago
time_hpet.c	[PATCH] CPU hotplug: fix hpet sectioning	20 years ago
trampoline.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
traps.c	[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: fix sparse warnings	20 years ago
vm86.c	[PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups	20 years ago
vmlinux.lds.S	[PATCH] mostly_read data section	20 years ago
vsyscall-int80.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
vsyscall-note.S	[PATCH] i386 vDSO: add PT_NOTE segment	20 years ago
vsyscall-sigreturn.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
vsyscall-sysenter.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
vsyscall.S	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	20 years ago
vsyscall.lds.S	[PATCH] i386 vDSO: add PT_NOTE segment	20 years ago