On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 02:36 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:55:42PM -0400, Eric Paris (eparis@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Since fanotify opens file descriptors inside the kernel for it's listeners > > it needs a way to make sure that 2 fanotify listeners, both which listen to > > open events do not continuously see each others open events (and get into a > > livelock reporting on each other's activity). This fix is to create a new > > tast_struct flags called PF_NONOTIFY. If this flag is set in a task no > > fanotify events will be generated for that task. fanotify will set the > > flag before and open call and will clear it immediately after. > > Is there a way to get old-school notifications with the object > information instead of opened file desriptor, which may suffer rlimit > problems and scalability issues with too many opened/closed descriptors? Use inotify. -Eric -- 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
