[RFC/PATCH 1/2] fsnotify

[Robert Love]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:52 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> To be honest, I don't really see that this is in any way better than
> what we had before. Yes, two different pieces of code actually use hooks
> in similar places in the VFS code. But this 'infrastructure' just to
> share those hooks is overkill as far as I can tell. It really isn't any
> better than having both inotify and audit hooks side by side where we
> can actually see what's going on at a glance. In fact, it's worse.

I think what makes this patch look superfluous is that Chris added a set
of wrappers for dnotify, too.

In the inotify patch, the fsnotify wrappers call directly into the
inotify and dnotify interfaces and they do consolidate code and clean
things up.  I added fsnotify at hch's request.

Now that audit is coming along, fsnotify makes even more sense.

I would like to share some more code at a lower level, though, as you
pointed out.

I planned to look at redoing dnotify entirely on top of inotify, once
inotify is in the kernel proper, for example.

	Robert Love