Re: Better support for (desktop) file search / indexing applications

[Tvrtko Ursulin]

On Saturday 10 November 2012 17:53:45 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Still fanotify needs root access and thus this would need a daemon running
> as root and some policy kit stuff to access it and in case of mount point
> watches robust and secure code so that each user may only see his/her own
> results.

Perhaps then also extend fanotify to support user watches, from the top of my 
head I can't think of a reason it would be very difficult to implement. But it 
has been a few years since I actively worked with that code.

Since you are not the only group having issues with fanotify feature set I can 
see this mini-project (together with extensions from me previous reply) being 
useful. It is also better to evolve it than neglect due a few shortcomings and 
then in a few years someone will come up with something completely new and 
then we will have yet another notification system.

Tvrtko

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