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SubjectRe: [take 3] Use pid in inotify events.
At this point I don't really want to see changes made to inotify. But,
for arguments sake, why not something like inotify_init1 that takes a
flag EXTENDED_EVENT which causes a larger event structure to be used.
Something like,

struct inotify_event_extended
{
s32 wd;
u32 mask;
u32 cookie;
u32 data[4];
char path[0];
}

The data array could be used to store arbitrary extra information,
specified by flags.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 07:39:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann (arnd@arndb.de) wrote:
>> The how about an inotify_init1 flag telling the kernel to ignore
>> changes done by the current PID? That sounds like it is potentially
>> useful to other applications that want to monitor the whole file system
>> and also write to it. It also doesn't need to change the ABI in
>> incompatible ways or introduce a security relevant side channel.
>
> That's a good idea. Robert, John, Michael - comments?
>
> --
> Evgeniy Polyakov
>



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