Hi. On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:21:33PM +0530, Niraj kumar (niraj17@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I am trying to use inotify to monitor filesystem events but > my problem is that I am only interested in changes that > is being done by a particular process and it's children > (could be the same process which used inotify APIs). > > Is it possible to achieve this process based filtering of events > using inotify infrastructure? You can try using inotify nested attributes patch [1] and filter events in userspace based on reported pid/tid. With the fsnotify changes coming it may be possible to have similar functionality there. 1. Inotify nested attributes. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/25/272 2. Example usage and test application. http://www.ioremap.net/node/73 -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- 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
