Andreas Dilger wrote: > That assumes agreement between the applications that are using this > interface. It isn't at all desirable that applications have to know > the "mountpoint" of the filesystem in order to use inotify, and in > some cases (e.g. bind mount in a new namespace) there isn't even access > to the root inode. A filesystem's root inode needn't be mounted at all. You don't need a new namespace - bind mount is enough by itself. It has me wondering - how can an application even tell when it has the root inode of a filesystem? You can't tell from /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts, nor from traversing the filesystem itself - except for filesystems where you know the expected inode number of the root inode. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
