Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:59:10 -0400 | From | Amy Griffis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] inotify: split kernel API from userspace support |
| |
Pavel Machek wrote: [Tue Jun 06 2006, 05:06:19PM EDT] > > Here is a more descriptive changelog message for this patch: > > > > This patch introduces a kernel API for inotify, making it possible for > > kernel modules to benefit from inotify's mechanism for watching > > inodes. > > What are proposed uses of this API?
Currently there are two uses of this API.
The first user is the code that provides inotify support to userspace, which lives in inotify_user.c in this patch.
The second user is an audit patch which provides path-based rules via inotify directory events. An inotify kernel API allows audit to take advantage of inotify's hooks, list management, and inode removal handling, instead of duplicating that functionality.
I'll send the audit patch in a new thread.
Amy - 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/
| |