On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 00:33 +0800, Yi Yang wrote:a change of struct inotify_event can't change ABI, can you describe it more clear?
Current inotify implementation only focus on change of file system, but it doesn't
know who results in this change, this patch adds three fields to struct inotify_event,
tgid, uid and gid, they will save process ID, user ID and user group ID of the process
which leads to change in the file system, such software as anti-virus can make use of this feature to monitor who is modifying a specific file.
this patch appears to change the ABI! That is bad bad bad.
Also, how can you guarantee that "current" is valid and meaningful atOf course, current process/thread never disappears before fsnotify_* returns.
the place you use it to get the user id ??
Also the process ID part is really bogus, after all the process may haveYour concern is correct, but uid and git can give out some hints, I ever considered to
exited by the time the inotify client gets to it, and the PID may even
already have been reused.