On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 04:18:29PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 3:53 PM Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For example, in fs/coredump.c, do_coredump() calls filp_open() to > > generate core files. > > In this scenario, the fsnotify_open() notification is missing. > > I am not convinced that we should generate an event. > You will have to explain in what is the real world use case that requires this > event to be generated. Take the typical usage for fsnotify of a graphical file manager. It would be nice if the file manager showed a corefile as soon as it appeared in a directory rather than waiting until some other operation in that directory caused those directory contents to be refreshed.
