linux/include
Robert Love 0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
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acpi [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-alpha Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6 2005-07-12 16:04:50 -07:00
asm-arm [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] Serial: Split 8250 port table (part 2) 2005-06-29 18:45:19 +01:00
asm-cris [PATCH] streamline preempt_count type across archs 2005-06-23 09:45:19 -07:00
asm-frv [PATCH] PCI: fix up errors after dma bursting patch and CONFIG_PCI=n 2005-06-27 21:52:46 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] kexec: vmlinux: fix physical addresses 2005-06-25 16:24:47 -07:00
asm-h8300 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
asm-ia64 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] m32r: framebuffer device support 2005-07-07 18:24:11 -07:00
asm-m68k [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] streamline preempt_count type across archs 2005-06-23 09:45:19 -07:00
asm-mips [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] Serial: Split 8250 port table (part 2) 2005-06-29 18:45:19 +01:00
asm-ppc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6 2005-07-12 16:04:50 -07:00
asm-ppc64 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] s390: fix finish_arch_switch 2005-06-30 08:45:08 -07:00
asm-sh [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-sh64 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-sparc [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-sparc64 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: tlb flushing fix 2005-07-12 16:01:01 -07:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] v850: Update mmu.h header to match implementation changes 2005-07-11 10:22:39 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc... 2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] remove asm-xtensa/ipc.h 2005-07-10 12:23:24 -07:00
linux [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
media [PATCH] v4l: I2C Tuner 2005-07-12 16:01:06 -07:00
mtd [MTD] NAND: Honour autoplacement schemes supplied by the caller 2005-05-23 13:20:45 +02:00
net [NET]: __be'ify *_type_trans() 2005-07-12 12:08:43 -07:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: fix pcmcia-cs compilation 2005-07-12 16:00:59 -07:00
rxrpc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
scsi [PATCH] I2O: Adaptec specific SG_IO access, firmware access through sysfs and 2400A workaround 2005-06-24 00:05:28 -07:00
sound [PATCH] create a kstrdup library function 2005-06-23 09:45:18 -07:00
video [PATCH] Clean-up and bug fix for tdfxfb framebuffer size detection 2005-05-01 08:59:25 -07:00