>> >> 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. I saw your patch and the related discussion... But I am thinking that filtering in userspace based on pid/tid could be too much overhead when the data that I am interested in might be just a small fraction of the whole thing... I was hoping to add a flag (similar to IN_ATTRS that you have added) which, when used, will only collect events for the calling process and it's children... -Niraj -- 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