Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.9
From: Chris Friesen
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 11:42:27 EST
Bill Davidsen wrote:
If I were doing this, and I admit I may not understand all of the
features, I would have a bitmap per filesystem of inodes being watched,
and anything which did an action which might require notify would check
the bit. If the bit were set the filesystem and inode info would be
passed to user space which could do anything it wanted.
How do you identify the filesystem? Whose mount namespace do you use if you
have multiple processes in different namespaces watching what is really the same
file?
Chris
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