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author | Robert Love <rml@novell.com> | 2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -0700 |
commit | 0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch) | |
tree | 7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /include/linux/inotify.h | |
parent | bd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/inotify.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/inotify.h | 108 |
1 files changed, 108 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/inotify.h b/include/linux/inotify.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a40c2bf0408 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/inotify.h @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +/* + * Inode based directory notification for Linux + * + * Copyright (C) 2005 John McCutchan + */ + +#ifndef _LINUX_INOTIFY_H +#define _LINUX_INOTIFY_H + +#include <linux/types.h> + +/* + * struct inotify_event - structure read from the inotify device for each event + * + * When you are watching a directory, you will receive the filename for events + * such as IN_CREATE, IN_DELETE, IN_OPEN, IN_CLOSE, ..., relative to the wd. + */ +struct inotify_event { + __s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */ + __u32 mask; /* watch mask */ + __u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */ + __u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */ + char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */ +}; + +/* the following are legal, implemented events that user-space can watch for */ +#define IN_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File was accessed */ +#define IN_MODIFY 0x00000002 /* File was modified */ +#define IN_ATTRIB 0x00000004 /* Metadata changed */ +#define IN_CLOSE_WRITE 0x00000008 /* Writtable file was closed */ +#define IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE 0x00000010 /* Unwrittable file closed */ +#define IN_OPEN 0x00000020 /* File was opened */ +#define IN_MOVED_FROM 0x00000040 /* File was moved from X */ +#define IN_MOVED_TO 0x00000080 /* File was moved to Y */ +#define IN_CREATE 0x00000100 /* Subfile was created */ +#define IN_DELETE 0x00000200 /* Subfile was deleted */ +#define IN_DELETE_SELF 0x00000400 /* Self was deleted */ + +/* the following are legal events. they are sent as needed to any watch */ +#define IN_UNMOUNT 0x00002000 /* Backing fs was unmounted */ +#define IN_Q_OVERFLOW 0x00004000 /* Event queued overflowed */ +#define IN_IGNORED 0x00008000 /* File was ignored */ + +/* helper events */ +#define IN_CLOSE (IN_CLOSE_WRITE | IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE) /* close */ +#define IN_MOVE (IN_MOVED_FROM | IN_MOVED_TO) /* moves */ + +/* special flags */ +#define IN_ISDIR 0x40000000 /* event occurred against dir */ +#define IN_ONESHOT 0x80000000 /* only send event once */ + +/* + * All of the events - we build the list by hand so that we can add flags in + * the future and not break backward compatibility. Apps will get only the + * events that they originally wanted. Be sure to add new events here! + */ +#define IN_ALL_EVENTS (IN_ACCESS | IN_MODIFY | IN_ATTRIB | IN_CLOSE_WRITE | \ + IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE | IN_OPEN | IN_MOVED_FROM | \ + IN_MOVED_TO | IN_DELETE | IN_CREATE | IN_DELETE_SELF) + +#ifdef __KERNEL__ + +#include <linux/dcache.h> +#include <linux/fs.h> +#include <linux/config.h> + +#ifdef CONFIG_INOTIFY + +extern void inotify_inode_queue_event(struct inode *, __u32, __u32, + const char *); +extern void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *, __u32, __u32, + const char *); +extern void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *); +extern void inotify_inode_is_dead(struct inode *); +extern u32 inotify_get_cookie(void); + +#else + +static inline void inotify_inode_queue_event(struct inode *inode, + __u32 mask, __u32 cookie, + const char *filename) +{ +} + +static inline void inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event(struct dentry *dentry, + __u32 mask, __u32 cookie, + const char *filename) +{ +} + +static inline void inotify_unmount_inodes(struct list_head *list) +{ +} + +static inline void inotify_inode_is_dead(struct inode *inode) +{ +} + +static inline u32 inotify_get_cookie(void) +{ + return 0; +} + +#endif /* CONFIG_INOTIFY */ + +#endif /* __KERNEL __ */ + +#endif /* _LINUX_INOTIFY_H */ |