[RFC/PATCH 1/2] fsnotify

Chris Wright chrisw at osdl.org
Mon Jul 11 17:25:36 UTC 2005


* David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) wrote:
> What would make sense, perhaps, would be to actually merge those hooks;
> not just a cosmetic amalgamation of the calling sites. Currently, each
> of inotify and the audit code does its own filtering when its hooks are
> triggered, and then acts upon the event only if it affects a watched
> inode. 

That's exactly what my intention was by posting this.  The hook site is
just enough to get the conversation going.  The really useful bits to
merge are at inode watch level.

thanks,
-chris




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