inotify code would not be hard to finish - at one time before the vfs api changed (to inotify from dnotify) cifs had experimental dnotify code, but it does have the worker functions for this. I would be very willing to look at patches for this ... On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to watch a CIFS mounted directory for changes (files being > created in specific). > > Does the CIFS client have working support for either INOTIFY or > DNOTIFY? From perusing the mailing list, it seems that INOTIFY support > is not present, but there was discussion on implementing DNOTIFY > support some time back[1]. I'm not clear if that was ever partially or > fully implemented. > > My current test scripts are using DNOTIFY and are not working with the > CIFS client included in RHEL5, Fedora 13 or Fedora 14. > > Thanks, > Ray > > [1] http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2009-January/003946.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
