Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:22:09 +0100 (CET) | From | Philipp Matthias Hahn <> | Subject | Re: FS callback routines |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Sean R. Bright wrote:
> I was writing a user space application to monitor a folder's contents. The > folder itself contained 100 folders, and each of those contained 24 folders. > While writing the code to traverse the directory structure I realized that > instead of my software figuring out when things change, why not just have > the fs tell my application when something was updated. For example, say we > had a function called watch_fs(), that took an inode reference and a > function pointer and maybe a bitmask of events to watch for. When that > inode (or its children) were changed, why couldn't the fs code call the > callback function I specified? RFTM: linux-2.4.0/Documentation/dnotify.txt
BYtE Philipp -- / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Philipp Hahn / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ pmhahn@titan.lahn.de
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