On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:25:50PM -0700, Steve French wrote: > 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 ... Thanks Steve. If only I had the skills to create the patches! Appreciate the info. Ray > > 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
