Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:36:26 +0400 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] task_struct: add PF_NONOTIFY for fanotify to use |
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Hi.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:55:42PM -0400, Eric Paris (eparis@redhat.com) wrote: > Since fanotify opens file descriptors inside the kernel for it's listeners > it needs a way to make sure that 2 fanotify listeners, both which listen to > open events do not continuously see each others open events (and get into a > livelock reporting on each other's activity). This fix is to create a new > tast_struct flags called PF_NONOTIFY. If this flag is set in a task no > fanotify events will be generated for that task. fanotify will set the > flag before and open call and will clear it immediately after.
Is there a way to get old-school notifications with the object information instead of opened file desriptor, which may suffer rlimit problems and scalability issues with too many opened/closed descriptors?
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
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