J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Fyi, fanotify is also synchronous: > > Oh, I didn't know that, apologies for the confusion. > > > It blocks the conflicting operation > > until the fanotify-using application allows it to proceed - or > > alternatively it can prevent the conflicting operating from proceeding > > at all. > > Just grepping for "fsnotify" (which fanotify is built on?) I find a lot > of hooks in the vfs that all appear to have void returns and to be > called after the operation is done. How does it fail an operation? No > doubt I'm missing something. The hook is fsnotify_perm(), called in security/security.c. -- Jamie -- 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