Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:05:01 +0300 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events. |
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Hi Christoph.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:19:37PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de) wrote: > Yes, this kind of thing should be enable using an flag to inotify1, and > be consistant even for rename. Doing it as a flag to inotify1 also has > the advantage to be able to return an -EPERM when the feature is > requested but not allowed instead of letting applications that assume it > silently fail.
So effectively you propose to have second generation of the inotify which will have additional pid field, which will be unused by all but the same uid events?
If you want to return -EPERM, than it will be _always_ returned for non sysadmin capable user, which effectively makes it unusable.
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
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