Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fanotify - overall design before I start sending patches | From | Eric Paris <> | Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:08:42 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 19:52 +0530, Niraj kumar wrote: > > > > - subtree notification. > > Currently to only watch /home and all of it's descendants one must > > either register a directed watch on every directory or use a global > > listener. The global listener with ignored_mask is not as bad as it > > sounds in my testing, but decent subtree registration and notification > > would be a big win in a lot of people's mind. > > Unless it's already covered in some way, I would also be interested > in notification based on "process subtree". What this means is that > for whatever notification a particular process requests, it's only > interested in events generated by itself and it's children. > This is useful in doing auditing for file system related access.
Has not been considered. You'd have to really flesh out the use case before I could.....
-Eric
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