On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:29:43 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:37:56AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Possible solution: > > > Then this can be solved, in principle (if there's no better way), by > > watching a "virtual directory" that gets all events for when the > > access doesn't have a parent directory. There needs to be some way to > > watch it, and some way to get the appropriate file from the event (as > > there is no real directory. Or maybe there could be a virtual > > filesystem (like /proc, /sys etc.) containing a magic directory that > > receives these inode-only events, such that lookups in that directory > > yield the affected file. Exactly as if the directory contains a hard > > link to every file, perhaps a text encoding of the handles passed > > through sys_open_by_handle_at. > > There is a better way - stop using idiotify... It has always been a > mistake, driven down our throats by filemangler and desktop crowd. > Broken in many, _many_ respects... Deprecate that crap, remove it > completely in a couple of revisions, let these clowns cope. Yeah, > yeah, I know... Not going to happen ;-/ One can dream, though... What do you suggest as a functioning alternative to inotify? --- ~Randy -- 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
