Re: supporting functions missing from inotify patch

[Robert Love]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:43 -0500, Steve French wrote:

> I don't see an inode operation for registering inotify events in the fs
> (there is a file operation for dir_notify to register its events).  In
> create_watch in fs/inotify.c I expected to see something like:

Why not use the existing dir_notify method?  No point in adding another.

Add inotify hooks as needed to your filesystem's dir_notify.

> I also don't see exports for 
> 	fsnotify_access
> 	fsnotify_modify
> 
> Without these exports, network and cluster filesystems can't notify the
> local system about changes.

Eh?

They are in <linux/fsnotify.h>.

	Robert Love


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